The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a roundtable discussion last month titled, "After a Decade of the 'War
on Terror': The Middle East, Human Rights, and American Muslims." Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, the event featured
UCLA Law Professor Asli Bali, University of California, Santa Barbara Sociology Professor Lisa Hajjar, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Southern
California attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. The audience of approximately twenty people was comprised mostly of law and graduate students, along with a few
members of the community.

According to the introduction, the speakers were to "examine this decade on the War on Terror in the broader context of the international community," but the
two-hour event quickly descended into a forum for America-bashing. All three speakers called the existence of Islamic terrorism into question and, what's worse,
behaved as if the attacks of September 11, 2001 never occurred.

IRAN AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE 2012 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 293, December 20, 2011

TEHRAN HOLDS OBAMA RE-ELECTION WILD CARD
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

The formal end of the U.S. war in Iraq on December 15, 2011, enhanced neighboring Iran as a major, unpredictable factor in the U.S. presidential election of 2012.

Ayatollah Khamene'i and President Obama can both make trouble for the other. If they do, Iran and Iraq would play outsized roles in the U.S. presidential contest,
continuing in their unique thirty-year role as the tar babies of American politics.

THOU SHALT NOT QUESTION UN "EXPERTS":
Inconvenient Questions Will Not Be Tolerated
in Durban or at Other Climate Crisis Conferences
By Dr. Kelvin Kemm

British Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley parachuted with me into Durban, South Africa, to challenge United Nations climate crisis claims, attracting
numerous journalists and onlookers. A 20-foot banner across our press conference table gave the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow further opportunities
to present realistic perspectives on the science and economics of climate change.

CFACT played by the rules, obtained the necessary permits beforehand, and ensured that its message was heard throughout the Seventeenth Annual Climate
Conference (COP-17). Greenpeace, on the other hand, got no permits before staging an Occupy Durban protest in the hallway outside the plenary session – and
got kicked out of the conference.

Can we successfully grow more plants per acre as a future strategy for increasing our crop yields and food production? Sixty thousand corn plants per acre — twice
Iowa’s current average — could be one route to higher productivity. The world will need twice as much food in 2050, and we’ll need to triple the crop yields on the
best land. Doubling would be a very good start.

Otherwise, we’ll see one of two bad things: Either lots of people will starve, or we’ll plow down all the wildlife for low-yield crops. The stakes are high. But the basic
ways to raise yields over the past half-century — cross-breeding plants, irrigation, pesticides, and lots of nitrogen fertilizer — are already widely used. Another
three-fold yield increase will be tough.

To ignore the rise of Christianity is to be ignorant of an essential element of Western history. Likewise, to ignore the threat of Islam, whose beginning is usually dated
around 622 CE and which exploded following Mohammad’s death in 632 CE, is to ignore the greatest threat to civilization, past and present. Less a religion than a
battle plan for world conquest, Islam preaches death to all “unbelievers.” Take heed!

Our nation’s economic growth may finish an anemic 2% on the last day of this year. More than 14 million Americans are unemployed, excluding the nearly nine
million who have been forced to take part-time jobs, or the 2.5 million who’ve given up on finding work.

Part of the solution to this unacceptable, demoralizing, and unnecessary situation is literally right under our feet -- the vast energy bounties which America is
blessed with, but which our politicians and regulators have kept locked up, making them unavailable to us.

OBAMA'S STRANGLEHOLD ON THE U.S.A. & ITS ECONOMY
By Christopher G. Adamo

At least until January, 2013 (assuming the people have had their eyes opened since the elections of 2008), America can expect to struggle and travail against a
noxious opponent within its own government which continually thwarts them at every turn, and always under some noble sounding premise. After that, it will face
one of two starkly diverging fates, depending on who is at the helm. Under the stewardship of a true, unwavering Conservative possessing the courage to stay on
track, it might rebound significantly. The ponderous engine of modern technology, once it is lifted from the slough of overregulation and taxation, could come
roaring back to life.

Or, if President Barack Obama retains his place, the remaining gasping breaths of a struggling nation will be summarily snuffed out. In sharp contrast to past
presidential contests, the pretense of middle ground no longer exists.

For 25 years, the Washington Post has praised organic foods, while I warned that low-yield organic farming posed a threat to the world’s wildlife. I estimated that
Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution not only saved billions of people from starvation, but, at the same time, saved seven million square miles of wildlife habitat that
would otherwise have been plowed down for more low-yielding crops. Seven million square miles is the land area of South America. That’s “high-yield conservation.”

REAGANOMICS & THE AMERICAN CHARACTER
By Dr. William Philip "Phil" Gramm

What was the American economy like in the decade prior to the Reagan Presidency? The 1970s, for a myriad of reasons, were not a happy time. They featured a
combination of stagnation and inflation, which came to be called “stagflation.” The inflation rate peaked at just over 13 percent, and prime interest rates rose as high
as 21-and-a-half percent. Although President Jimmy Carter did not use the exact words, a malaise had certainly set in among Americans. Many wondered whether
our nation’s time had passed. A Time magazine headline read, “Is the Joyride Over?” Did we really need, as Jimmy Carter told us, to learn to live on less?

Finally, Senate Republicans have achieved a political and moral victory. Caitlin Halligan, a Far-Left judicial activist and Obama nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia was soundly rejected in a fifty-four to forty-five Senate vote on Tuesday, December 8, 2011. Though Liberalism continues to ravage the
nation, at least one extra-constitutionalist militant Leftist will not be spearheading the movement by exceeding and abusing the authority vested in the U.S. federal
court system.

As'ad AbuKhalil, a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus, spoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley -- the
"teach-in" titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring."

AbuKhalil, author of the Angry Arab blog, was introduced as "the most influential Arab blogger in English and Arabic." Wasting no time living up to his self-caricature, he
presented the demise of Israel as his life's work, referred repeatedly to the "usurping Zionist entity," and characterized the U.S.A. as the source of all that ails the Arab world.

Whether glorifying violence, exalting in the death and misery of Israelis, or blaming the U.S.A. for the ills of the Arab world, AbuKhalil lived up to his moniker as an "angry Arab."
Presumably, he brings the same radicalism to the classroom, which is a frightening prospect for his students. When anger replaces reason, there's little hope for an education, no
matter how many "teach-ins" universities offer.

LOOKING TO THE DOLLAR, GOLD, & "MUTTI" TO SAVE THE WORLD
By Alan Caruba

Perhaps, the most likely outcome of the currency wars and the debasement of the dollar is a chaotic, catastrophic collapse of investor confidence, resulting in
emergency measured by governments to maintain some semblance of a functioning system of money, trade and investment.

The two currency wars of the last century led to two world wars. The current path of the dollar is unsustainable, and, therefore, the dollar will not be sustained.
A return to the gold standard offers the best chance of stability.

According to Egypt's elections committee, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote of the first round of voting in Egypt; and the Salafis, who promote
a yet more extreme Islamist program, won 24 percent, giving them together a jaw-dropping 61 percent of the vote.

This stunning result prompts two questions: Is this a legitimate or rigged outcome? Are Islamists about to dominate Egypt?

ENTERING THE GREAT DEPRESSION NUMBER TWO PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 281, December 4, 2011

SPENDING MORE HAS NEVER WORKED!
By Alan Caruba

Ask any financial advisor what to do when you are drowning in debt and they will tell you to spend less and pay down your debt. This is just common sense.
However, if you ask politicians what to do, they will advise that the nation spend more and borrow more.

Despite a huge national debt and deficit, the U.S. federal government just concluded its biggest spending year with its second biggest annual budget deficit.
For Fiscal Year 2011, which ended September 30, the government spent $3.6 trillion, an increase over the $3.52 trillion posted in 2009.

DURBAN DUE DILIGENCE:
We Must Demand Scientific Rigor on Climate Change,
or We Will Reap the Consequences
By Dr. Kelvin Kemm

From my vantage point here in South Africa, I could hardly miss the major build-up to the COP-17 United Nations world environment and climate conference, which
is being held November 28 to December 9, 2011, in Durban, where I went to school and university.

Let us hope that at least some world leaders will have the courage to stand up at COP-17 and demand the kind of scientific rigour that brought so much enlightenment
and progress over the centuries. Proper due diligence in Durban requires nothing less.

Only then will poverty be eradicated, and health and environmental conditions improve, for billions of people all over our planet.

As the citizens of the United States of America and the seventeen member-states of the European Union look on, a great drama regarding the future of the EU and
its currency, the Euro, is occurring.

The essential problem is that both the U.S. dollar and the Euro are just so much paper, despite the promises and guarantees that they will be honored as real money.
The trick has been to keep everyone believing there are sufficient real assets to back up those promises.

THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT NOW LARGER THAN THE NATION'S GDP PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 278, November 27, 2011

THE THREAT OF A GLOBAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
By Alan Caruba

At present, the amount of the annual U.S. Gross Domestic Product, $14 trillion — the value of all the goods and services that generate income — is exceeded by the
nation’s debt.

America is presently $15 trillion in debt, and the debt grows daily.

In a November 21, 2011, Wall Street Journal interview, Erskine Bowles, of the presidential advisory commission on the nation’s debt, said: “If you take 100%
of the revenue that came into the country last year, every single dime of it was consumed by our mandatory spending and interest on the debt.”

Africa is the only continent where food production per capita is falling, as its population continues to expand. Three-fourths of Africa’s food is produced on small
farms that get radically lower crop yields than its experimental farms.

Even if these little farms got adequate fertilizer and high-yield seeds, they still wouldn’t get the higher yields produced by First World farmers because of the heavy
weed populations fostered by Africa’s high temperatures, high humidity, and intense sunlight. A Nigerian field has an estimated 200 million weed seeds per hectare!

FLUENCY IN ARABIC -- ONE TOOL AMONG MANY IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES RESEARCH PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 276, Nov 22, 2011

ARABIST SNOBS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Is knowledge of Arabic necessary to write about Arabs or make policy toward them?

Of course, it helps to know languages. But, languages do not protect against ideology, faddism, pedantry, or misinformation. They guarantee neither quality scholarship
nor policy insights. Whoever has learned Arabic can take pride in this achievement without boasting that it trumps other qualifications. It is one tool among many, not a
status.

At what point will it finally occur to the pea-brained legion of journalists, academics, alleged scientists, United Nations propagandists, and others still blathering about
“global warming” and “climate change”that there is no global warming and that the climate has been changing for the past 4.5 billion years on planet Earth?

It would appear that no amount of the evidence of fraud is sufficient to convince these environmentalist ideologues and radical Leftists that they have either participated
in or been taken in by the greatest hoax of the modern era.

The environmentalists and man-made global warming activists at the United Nations are trapped in turmoil over how
to deal with the earth’s lack of warming since 1998. A week or so ago, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) circulated a draft statement that would have admitted we are unlikely to have any further
earth-warming for the next 30 years “because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small, compared to
natural climate variability.”

The BBC’s environmental reporter Richard Black reported that he had received a copy of that draft. Black said he
expected member governments to reject the statement, however, because it would embarrass the first-world
governments’ Green energy subsidies and taxes agenda. It would also have finally killed the world’s climate-terror
campaign.

We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance
are under attack, decaying or just self-destructing, due to all the ills to which humanity is prone.

Few professors in the controversial world of Middle East Studies boast more about their own notoriety than Juan Cole, a
man who believes the consistent criticism of his public positions to be a sign of distinction. Yale University's decision not
to hire him for an endowed chair five years ago, due to insufficient scholarship, led him to publicly charge that George W.
Bush and the CIA torpedoed his candidacy. When publications and organizations such as Campus Watch publicize
Cole's outlandish commentary, he cries "censorship" and labels them "McCarthyite."

For all but the most blindly dogmatic, any former “bloom” has long since left the rosy facade of the “Occupy Wall Street”
phenomenon. Though the Liberal media have been working overtime from the beginning to maintain the fantasy that the
protesters embody the concerns and aspirations of Real America, and, despite their best efforts to frame any discussion
of the movement as a noble endeavor propelled by unfettered idealism, its sheer ugliness is daily becoming more apparent
and inescapable.

Perhaps the silliest thing about the modern global warming debate is that we’re trying to evaluate major climate changes in
eye-blinks of time, such as 10 or 30 years. A big Ice Age cycle lasts about 90,000 years, and the last one ended about 12,000
years ago. El Ninos last a year of two and change nothing, climate-wise. The Weather Channel can (sort of) predict ten days
out.

Yet, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made claims of man-made global warming, claims
based on an “unprecedented warming” that was only 22 years long, 1976–1998.

THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 269, Nov 12, 2011

IF NOT ROMNEY, WHO?
By Alan Caruba

Generally overlooked in the midst of the many debates and the usual competition between Republican contenders for
their Party’s nomination as its candidate for President is the fact that a rather impressive number have thrown their hats
in the ring. It is testimony to the health, depth, and diversity of the Republican Party. Compare that with the Democratic
Party’s lone candidate, a President already ceded the title of worst President ever.

As campaigns proceed toward the on-rushing primaries, Republicans are increasingly focused beyond the usual circus
atmosphere, including the latest problems encountered by Herman Cain and Rick Perry’s gaffs. Selecting the GOP
candidate has now reached the critical stage.

Walid Phares's moral clarity on Islamism and jihadism do not sit well with those who would rather engage in apologetics
and obstructionism. This explains why his fiercest opponents have included some of the worst from the academic field
of Middle East Studies.

As Winter sets in, America faces real monsters: government regulations that stifle energy production, increase energy
prices, kill jobs, squeeze family and business incomes, and threaten living standards and productivity.

Millions of poor, black, Latino, and elderly Americans will bear the brunt of rising energy costs. Even middle class families
will have to decide whether to heat their homes or buy groceries or medicine.

So declared Gilbert Achcar — Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the University of London's
School of Oriental and African Studies — at the outset of his lecture last month at the University of California, Berkeley.
Those in the audience hoping for scholarly objectivity were thus informed that Achcar's ethnicity trumped intellectual
independence and that, despite evidence to the contrary, an Arab could not be pro-Israel. One had to give him credit for at
least confirming his biases up front.

American billionaire Doug Tompkins acquired millions of acres in Chile’s Patagonia region, in a block of land from Argentina
to the Pacific. He claims he wants to protect unique habitats and species. His real motive appears to be thwarting energy and
economic development in Chile. The huge block of land, known as Pumalin Park, effectively prevents any north-south roads,
travel, transmission lines and commerce, except by air or sea. Tompkins is also leading and financing campaigns to stop a
major hydroelectric project that would provide much-needed electricity for Chile.

Equally as bad, Tompkins and his Deep Ecology activists consistently violate nearly every cannon of corporate social
responsibility that they demand of for-profit corporations. That is not just hypocritical. It enables them to present false and
misleading information to support their campaigns, without having to worry about accountability for fraud … or even for the
adverse consequences of the policies they want to impose on Chile. In other words, CSR for you, but not for us.

Tompkins calls his actions saving the planet. Many others call it energy and economic eco-imperialism.

HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT INTENDS TO MAINTAIN CONTROL
By Christopher G. Adamo

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the entire Herman Cain “sexual harassment” controversy was its complete predictability.
The moment Cain stunned the nation by winning the Florida straw poll, an ambush of this nature became inevitable. And it
is for that reason more than any other that, despite the ferocity of the attack, the vast majority of early supporters remain
steadfastly in his camp.

After being so overused, the pattern has become unmistakable. The moment any true Conservative moves to the political
forefront, the script books are opened and a methodical deconstruction of that individual begins.

HIGH TIME TO RID THE STREETS OF THE
"OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENT
By Alan Caruba

Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that the movement tends toward
violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities — some seventy at last count — that are being occupied need
to crack down on it.

It is hard to know where to begin listing the reasons why “Liberalism” and “hypocrisy” have become synonymous. But the
latest flap over some warmed over charges of “sexual harassment” against Herman Cain is a sterling example. Outrageous
though this synthetic controversy may be, it hardly comes as a surprise. Conservatives have been warning for weeks that
the political Left would most certainly engage in just such behavior once Cain’s star began to rise. Yet, it is always amazing
how shamelessly Liberals can ignore the mountains of evidence proving their insincerity while they lecture the nation with
almost comical passion.

President Obama campaigned for office largely on the claim that his predecessor had shredded the Constitution. By the
Constitution, he could not have meant the document signed on September 17, 1787. Article II of that document begins
with a simple declaration: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Not
“some” or “most” or even “all but a teeny-weeny bit” of the executive power. The President is vested with all of it. This
is particularly noteworthy when compared with the enumerated legislative powers vested in Congress: “All legislative
Powers herein granted.” The Founders understood, based in part on their unfortunate experience under the Articles of
Confederation, that the branch of government most likely to be in need of the ability to act quickly and decisively is the
executive. The branch most likely to overreach is the legislature.

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE
U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Following President Obama's promise that all American troops will be home from Iraq by Christmas time, there have been
numerous misconceptions circulated in media reports about what is precisely going on regarding the U.S. withdrawal.

America has been under attack since President Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009. The primary target
has been the nation’s ability to generate energy for electricity and transportation, without which this nation will slide into
Third World status and economic decline.

This appears to be the goal of this administration from the President to his Secretaries of Energy and Interior, to his Director
of the Environmental Protection Agency. There is no other rational explanation for what they are doing.

The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding
the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain, while celebrating dissidents in Egypt? Or protect Libyan rebels from government
attacks, but not their Syrian counterparts? Oppose Islamists taking over in Yemen, but not in Tunisia?

Such ad hockery reflects something deeper than incompetence: the difficulty of devising a constructive policy toward a
region where, other than in a few outliers (Cyprus, Israel, and Iran), populations are predominantly hostile to the West.
Friends are few, powerless, and with dim prospects of taking control. Democracy therefore translates into hostile relations
with unfriendly governments.

Those who ascribe to such quaint and sentimental notions as national sovereignty and cultural cohesiveness would
certainly not shed any tears over the demise of the European Union. Once praised as the gleaming example of the new
order, it now teeters on total collapse. And, in an inarguable statement on the reality of the human condition, its travails
do not involve any irreconcilable conflict of altruistic philosophies, or contrasting visions of the future ascendancy of
civilization. Rather, the widening rift among its members centers on the comparatively prosaic issue of money.

Confidently commenting on the execution of Libya's long-time dictator, U.S. President Barack Obama stated that "the
death of Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi showed that our role in protecting the Libyan people, and helping them break free from a
tyrant, was the right thing to do." About his own decision to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq in two months' time, Obama
asserted: "In Iraq, we've succeeded in our strategy to end the war." He then drew triumphalist conclusions from these
developments, bragging that they show "The tide of war is receding" and "we've renewed American leadership in the
world."

My commentary this week calls attention to an absurd lawsuit by Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, who has sued
Canadian climate scientist Tim Ball for allegedly defaming him through a little joke that played word games with “Penn
State” and alluded to some of Mann’s questionable research practices.

What’s truly strange is that, just a couple weeks ago, Mann accused another climate scientist of “dishonest smears that
have been manufactured by fossil fuel industry-funded climate change deniers, and those who do their bidding by lying
to the public about the science.” This string of libels Mann does not consider libelous. But a little joke is.

Nevertheless, Mann’s lawsuit has put a lot of strain on Dr. Ball, who is now working with lawyers, preparing to defend
himself – and launch a counteroffensive. In addition to explaining the facts surrounding this idiotic defamation suit, my
article encourages people to support Dr. Ball’s legal defense fund – and in so doing protect their own freedoms and
living standards.

For the past six years, the Heartland Institute has sponsored International Climate Change Conferences, the last in
Washington, D.C., June 30-July 1, 2011. Haven’t heard about them? Maybe that’s because the mainstream media has
gone out of its way to ignore them. The conferences, however, have contributed to the growing body of knowledge
disputing global warming to the point where, even in the nation’s capitol, the topic has become little more than the
slow revelation of the utter mendacity of the hoax and its perpetrators.

Where has global warming gone? Onto the ash heap of the history of the last twenty-plus years of bad policies,
wasted billions of the public treasure, and all of it driven by the UN’s mendacious “science.”

When I think of Herman Cain, I see a strong black family with a hard-working chauffeur father who also worked a night job,
and an equally strong mother, the pair of whom collaborated in pulling their son up toward his fullest potential in a free
society. What grieves me most deeply is that it’s taking so long for the promise of the black family in America to be fulfilled.

I blame the welfare system that began many decades ago for shattering the strong black families that existed at the end of
the Depression. The free black families had built strong communities based on pride in even the low-level work they were
allowed to do, and the collective strength of their closely-knit society.

There were, at last count, at least 643 ways to spell Muammar al-Qaddafi and, I for one, am very happy he is dead for that
reason alone. The fact that he was the dictator of Libya for over forty years and funded the Lockerbie bombing of a Pan
Am airliner and other terrorist acts also contributes to the good news.

In Paris, on October 15, 2011, a group of finance ministers and central bankers known as the G20, representing major nations,
gave the European Union until October 23, 2011, to find an answer to the financial crises that are tearing apart the European
Union and its monetary structure.

Don’t hold your breath. If not now, at least in the foreseeable future, the European Union will collapse for the oldest reasons,
national sovereignty and national self-interest.

ACADEMIC PAY TO PLAY: RADICAL ISLAMISTS
FUND ONE OF THEIR OWN IN ONTARIO
By Winfield Myers

Huron University College (HUC) in Ontario announced Friday morning the appointment of Ingrid Mattson, a professor
at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut and former President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), as the first
London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at its Faculty of Theology.

The move validates widespread concern, as revealed in the Campus Watch article by Canadian journalist
Barbara Kay and a letter from concerned faculty and friends at HUC, both published in May, that the support of several
Islamist groups in funding the chair would lead to the appointment of a radical Islamist as the first holder. In Ingrid
Mattson, the funders' wishes have been fulfilled.

America is not called a nation of immigrants for nothing. Aside from the native tribes that were here for centuries, it was
waves of immigration, first from Europe and then from everywhere else, that created the most unique citizen on planet
Earth, the American. The lure was a fairly scarce commodity in the world -- freedom and opportunity.

Using hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation will create jobs, improve lives, and
boost tax revenues in Maryland – while also protecting water and other environmental resources through proper,
commonsense regulations. That’s the message laid out by Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., in this commentary.

As Co-Chair of the Affordable Power Alliance, Bishop Jackson understands energy – and poverty. And he knows enough
about “fracking” to respond knowledgeably about myths and falsehoods that anti-hydrocarbon environmental activists
are using to generate opposition to drilling techniques that have quadrupled America’s natural gas supplies, and driven
gas prices lower than they have been in years. Families will now find heating their homes won't break their budget,
electricity will also cost less, and companies will be able to hire and retain more workers in factories and petrochemical
plants.

In an age of few political beliefs, the cause of preventing catastrophic climate change has become an end in itself. Only
recently, the British Government's Chief Scientist [Professor Sir David King], no less, forecasted that, by the end of the
Twenty-First Century, Antarctica would be the only habitable continent.

But he notes that there has been no global warming trend since 1998. Are we absolutely certain that the main cause of
global warming is carbon dioxide emissions and has nothing to do with the action or output of the Sun? It would be
unfortunate if history recalled that we solved a problem which, in the end, did not require a solution by tipping Britain’s
economy into a depression.

CAN LIBERALS DEVICE A NEW "GRASSROOTS" PHENOMENON?
By Christopher G. Adamo

The U.S. political and cultural Left is once again working to construct its own mass movement, touting it as the real voice
of the American people. It is this effort that lies at the root of the vastly overblown “Occupy Wall Street” debacle of
recent weeks. And, once again, the underlying truths of this effort inexorably highlight the real means and motives of
Liberal Leftists in the U.S.A.

Hardly a “spontaneous” outpouring of cohesive sentiment among the people of the nation, this phenomenon has been
pre-planned, orchestrated, and funded from the top-down. In that aspect alone, it wholly and accurately reflects the
standard operating procedures and mindset of its Leftwing Statist creators. Nor do its players engender compelling hopes
and goals for the nation. Rather, they expose the standard subversive Alinsky/Soros fingerprints, along with the
necessary funding and top-down control that invariably come from them.

Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change.
As it belatedly makes its grand debut on the world stage after domestic Greek-Turkish communal issues have consumed
its first 51 years of independence, it faces both great opportunity and great danger.

David Letterman, an American TV commedian, stood up to Islamists threatening to kill him for his speech. We at the
Freedom Forum's Legal Project recognize that Letterman has far more resources than most to try to protect himself and
his family. But even their wealth can't fully protect them from terrorist reprisal. Yet, Letterman did not allow fear to
silence him. His example is important, not least because Letterman is so prominent, and this incident is so public. Let's
hope he spurs others to follow in his footsteps, so that threats and intimidation do not silence free expression in this
country on any topic.

OUR CHILDREN ARE AT RISK:
EEN Needs to Get it Right, Before it Preaches to Others
By Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

Once again, partisan political activists are defending job-killing regulations that will harm the most vulnerable people, while
providing no demonstrable environmental benefits. Unfortunately, these environmentalist activists are also working hard to
seduce sincere Church leaders.

The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses “science” to justify their regulations is false, just like most of
the claims they issue on various aspects of the nation’s environment. Their favorite scam is to estimate the number of
deaths they will prevent with some new draconian regulation.

The EPA is a ruthless enforcement agency with a very Green agenda that is opposed to the use of many beneficial
chemicals, every form of energy, and the right of people to be left alone.

At the top of its list of priorities is the destruction of the American economy, with special attention to all forms of energy
production. Manufacturing anything comes next, followed by afflicting the America’s vast agricultural sector. The EPA
insists that dust is a pollutant. You can’t farm without generating dust.

For decades, physicians and livestock producers have been warring about the low-level feeding of antibiotics to hogs and
poultry. The meat producers have been putting small quantities of antibiotics into their poultry, hog, and cattle feeds to
prevent the development of animal disease epidemics. The better herd and flock health reduces death losses and animal
suffering — and also slashes their feed requirements.

However, the doctors asserted that resistance to new antibiotics was appearing too fast to be explained by the modest
levels of the prescriptions they write. Human lives are clearly at stake. The Centers for Disease Control and physicians’
associations demanded the end of farm antibiotic use.

In a Middle East wracked by coups d'état and civil insurrections, the Republic of Turkey credibly offers itself as a model,
thanks to its impressive economic growth, democratic system, political control of the military, and secular order.

If one has been in the habit of reading history, then the events of the past and of the present inform each other. For this
reason, it occurred to me that the world is once again having a nervous breakdown.

As the economies of the U.S.A. and several European nations totter on default, it is essential to draw on lessons from the
past. The most obvious lesson is that the governments of the U.S.A. and the Europeans have been spending far more than
they can tax or borrow.

Decades since the 1980s, all these governments have spent huge amounts of money, wasting billions on “alternative”
sources of energy in the name of global warming or climate change. All have stayed busy before and since the end of
World War Two consolidating power in the U.S. federal government and, more recently, in the European Union.

It would be a mistake to believe that the “mainstream” media and press are only interested in boosting ratings as they play
up the contest between Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in their quest for the
Republican presidential nomination. While increased viewership is a definite “plus,” their ultimate concern is the re-election
of Barack Hussein Obama. And they have made it abundantly clear that Romney would be their preferred Republican
candidate in a general election race.

VICTORY IS SWEET, BUT THE WAR CONTINUES:
CELEBRATE EPA'S WITHDRAWAL OF JOB-KILLING
OZONE STANDARDS, BUT PREPARE FOR MORE ONSLAUGHTS
By Paul K. Driessen

Millions of Americans shared the joy that erupted after the White House told the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to shelve its plans for imposing tough new ground level ozone rules and regulations on the country. However,
vast numbers of other punitive rules and regulations are still in the federal pipeline, which, if implemented, will have
adverse impacts on our lives and livelihoods, and people’s jobs, health, and welfare. Today's article summarizes some
of those new rules and regulations, focusing on the most egregious and destructive rule-maker and regulator of all,
the EPA.

It’s tough enough for the Israelis and Jews around the world to deal with the growing anti-Semitism that has been spread
and nurtured by Muslims, but this irrational hatred, the well spring of the Holocaust, could set off a series of events
initiated by such hatred.

Having destroyed the World Trade Center towers ten years ago, World War Three would be Islam’s gift to the world.

Two cases that are currently making their way to the U.S. Supreme Court may very well, in the short term, decide the
constitutional issue of the reach and extent of the central government. At stake, in other words, is the future of limited
government. And together, these two cases present an exceedingly odd situation. In the case of the Arizona illegal alien
law, the central government is suing a state for constitutional violations; and, in the case of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act — that is, Obamacare — more than half the states are suing the central government, contesting the
Act’s constitutionality. It is indeed a litigious season.

But the Supreme Court’s decisions in these two cases may not be the last word,
because both of them present eminently political issues that will have to be decided
ultimately by the American people.

Sixty-four years after partitioning Palestine into two independent states – one Jewish, the other Arab – the UN General
Assembly is set again to vote on the same issue. While this time around Palestinian leaders appear to be preaching
compromise, closer scrutiny reveals this to be a tactical, rather than a strategic, change of heart, stemming from the
different circumstances of the two votes and aimed at disguising their lingering unwillingness (or perhaps inability) to
live with a two-state solution.

As Al Gore tries to plug holes in his sinking “manmade climate chaos” ship, self-styled “corporate social responsibility”
activists are pressuring companies to endorse their global warming, sustainability, fair trade, and organic farming agendas.
Among the recent targets is the J M Smucker Company, maker of jams, syrups and coffees.

My commentary today eviscerates the Calvert and Trillium campaign against Smucker – shooting holes in many of their
central assertions, and urging Smucker to continue resisting the activist pressure. Staying the course, I argue, will protect
the Company’s growers, customers, and bottom line alike.

EARLY WARNINGS IGNORED: SEPTEMBER 11, A DECADE LATER
By Dr. Jonathan Schanzer

Working under the obscure banner of the Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, a handful of U.S.
congressmen consistently warned of the threat of Islamist jihadist terrorism for more than a decade before the attacks of
September 11, 2001.

PANETTA VERSUS U.S. MILITARY ON IRAQ:
DEBATING THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN TROOPS
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

As the original withdrawal deadline of December 31, 2011 under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) edges ever closer
for U.S. troops in Iraq, reports have emerged that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come out in support of a plan that
would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in the country beyond this year. Their sole purpose will be to provide training
for the Iraqi security forces.

On the other hand, senior military figures such as General Lloyd J. Austin III -- the senior American commander in Iraq --
would prefer to see a much larger and open-ended presence of around 14,000 to 18,000 U.S. troops.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S HISTORY OF FAILED MUSLIM OUTREACH
By Patrick Poole

Time and again, the U.S. government has engaged the wrong Muslim partners, legitimizing and empowering the very
extremists whose influence should be limited. This has been done despite repeated warnings from counterterrorism and law
enforcement officials at virtually every step of the way. Damaging information about the government's outreach partners
has been known and intentionally ignored, resulting in a lengthy list of bipartisan fiascos.

If the death of nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens on 9/11 was insufficient to reconsider how our government conducts
Muslim outreach, it is too terrible to contemplate how many more lives may eventually be sacrificed before our elected
officials decide to reverse course.

U.S. law enforcement agencies have generally responded to 9/11 with a pretend counterterrorism policy. They still insist
that naming the enemy as Islamism causes terrorism, that Islamist violence poses no more threat than that of neo-Nazis,
racial supremacists, et al. -- and that counterterrorism primarily involves feel-good measures such as improving civil rights,
passing anti-discrimination laws, and displaying goodwill to Islamists.

And, then, there is the New York Police Department, an institution uniquely spurred by 9/11 to abandon its former laxity
and get serious. The force that had mishandled prior terrorist incidents (e.g., the assassination of Meir Kahane) quickly
transformed itself into an outstanding counterterrorist agency under the remarkable leadership of Raymond Kelly.
(Andrew McCarthy calls him a "godsend"). Unlike other law enforcement institutions, NYPD names the enemy,
acknowledges the predominant threat of Islamist violence, and built a robust intelligence operation.

WHAT 9/11 HAS WROUGHT: SEPTEMBER 11 A DECADE LATER
By Dr. Dov S. Zakheim

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans have had to adjust to a host of changes in their lives, from more
and more intrusive searches at airports to concrete barriers in front of public places to government sanctioned surveillance
of overseas telephone calls.

Americans have become so inured to those inconveniences that they take them in stride. Economically, however, this
impact has exceeded a trillion dollars, if the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is added to that of domestic security
measures and the primary, secondary, and tertiary effects of the losses incurred on 9/11 itself.

WINNING THE BATTLE AGAINST AL-QA'IDA,
LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHAD
By Raymond Ibrahim

So long as the West focuses on names and faces in the socalled "war on terror" — as opposed to focusing on ideas and
motivations — so long will it possibly win battles, even as it slowly loses the war.

Al Gore returns to your TV screen in a 24-hour telethon September 14. He will presumably warn us about the lakes of
molten lava that Mother Nature will pour upon us unless we agree to starve in the dark.

WHY FOCUS ON PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS BY
MUSLIM MAJORITIES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD?
By Raymond Ibrahim

Some are asking why my new monthly series, "Muslim Persecution of Christians," wherein I collate and assess some of
the atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, does not include the persecution of other religious minority
groups; others are suggesting I broaden my scope to include all minorities, for instance, homosexuals.

Of course, other minority groups — essentially any religion other than Islam (or even the wrong kind of Islam, e.g., Shi'ism,
Sufism) — experience persecution in the Muslim world. Accordingly, others qualified in the particulars of the various
religions and civilizations persecuted by Islam are encouraged to collate and comment on them, monthly or otherwise.

I have been predicting the death of the global warming theory since late in the last decade, when it became obvious that the
Earth had entered into a cooling cycle. By 2009, the leak of thousands of emails between the “scientists” whose computer
models the claims were based upon revealed they were in a state of panic regarding this obvious phenomenon.

Employed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control (IPCC), those “scientists” have since been
protected by the universities who benefited greatly from the huge grants of public funding they received. The issue of
whether such men should be prosecuted for deceiving the entire world remains to be decided.

It was the view of John Maynard Keynes that, in order to promote recovery from a recession or depression, the government
had to spend lots of money on public housing, better roads, and improvements to the electricity grid to get money into general
circulation, stimulate the economy, and restore business confidence. The unemployed had to be given work, even if it was the
government, not private enterprise, that would provide the capital.

The writings of Friedrich August Hayek reflects the Conservative, or Classical Liberal, view that government should get out of
the way and let a recession yield to natural economic forces. History demonstrates that, without government involvement,
recessions eventually go away in relatively short order.

Government, Hayek argued, is more likely to make a mess of the economy than fix it.

AMERICA'S ECONOMY IS INTERWOVEN WITH ITS MORALITY
By Christopher G. Adamo

With this week’s Republican debate having gained a major position in the media spotlight and actually a delay in Barack
Obama’s over-hyped “Jobs” (read: Deficit spending and pork) speech, it is inarguable that the 2012 presidential campaign
season is in full swing. And, though the public is usually loath to once again face all of the pandering, self-absorption,
and half-truths of modern campaigning, this election cycle is one that could not come soon enough.

PEW POLL QUANTIFIES THE RADICAL MINORITY OF U.S. MUSLIMS
By Dr. David J. Rusin

Four weeks after the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center released its study of Muslim Americans , the Pew Research Center followed
suit by publishing a survey of far greater value, due to its broader range of topics, more direct questioning, and extensive
demographic cross tabs. Though the media, like Pew,have emphasized the mainstream attitudes of most U.S. Muslims, the
data indicate that radical views are held by a small but important minority that cannot be ignored.

"MUSLIM RADICALIZATION": IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
By Raymond Ibrahim

Because the phrase "Muslim radicalization" has become increasingly popular in American discourse, it behooves us to
establish once and for all what it means. Without an agreed upon definition, it may be that we are each talking about
different things — or worse and more likely, nothing at all.

WIND POWER -- OUR LEAST SUSTAINABLE ENERGY OPTION:
From a Land Use, Economic, Environmental, or Raw Materials
Perspective, Wind Power Is Unsustainable.
By Paul K. Driessen

It’s the rare energy or environmental article these days that doesn’t appeal to “sustainability.” We must have a “sustainable”
energy system, a “sustainable” economy, a “sustainable” future, we are told. Rarely, though, have any of these authors
explained how the wind and solar projects they typically promote actually promote sustainability -- or even what it means for
something to be “sustainable.”

The truth is, politically correct wind and solar energy systems may well be the least sustainable options we have – and may
well provide by far the least energy bang for our sizable subsidy buck. In this article, I make the case that wind power is THE
least sustainable option, and do so primarily because wind is far ahead of solar in terms of projects, acres affected, and
environmental impacts inflicted.

I expect the column will stir up a lot of controversy, comment, and soul searching among legislators, regulators,
environmentalists of every stripe, and people who are simply concerned about our energy and economic future.

LIFE FOR U.S. MUSLIMS NOT VERY BAD AT ALL PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 216, Aug 31, 2011

GALLUP'S U.S. MUSLIM SURVEY: NO GREAT BOON TO ISLAMISTS
By Dr. David J. Rusin

Depicting the lives of Muslim-Americans as fraught with suffering is the bread and butter of Islamists, but this grim portrait
simply does not square with the data. If Muslims are "thriving" and "no other religious group … expects things to improve as
much as do Muslim-Americans," how bad can life really be for them? Not very bad at all.

All too predictably, the insidious onslaught against Texas Governor Rick Perry is now in full swing. On the heels of the very
first rumors last Spring that he might consider a run for the U.S. Presidency, and long before he officially announced, the
Democratic Party political hit machine, its collaborators in “mainstream” Liberal media, and even the standard RINO
mouthpieces were lining up to cut him down to size. Perry has hit the campaign trail in a big way, and, as such, he poses a
threat not only to President Barack Obama, but to the entire “bipartisan” apparatus of Beltway insiders.

The world's longest ruling head of state, Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on
September 1, 2011. As he leaves the scene, Qaddafi's wretched reign deserves an appraisal.

With trumpets and drum rolls, the U.S. White House, in early August, released a policy paper on methods to prevent terrorism,
said to have beentwo years in the making. Signed personally by President Barack Hussein Obama and with rhetoric vaunting
"the strength of communities" and the need to "enhance our understanding of the threat posed by violent extremism," the
document looks anodyne.

But, beneath the calm, lies a counter­productive – and dangerous – approach to counterterrorism. The import of this paper
consists in its firm stand on the wrong side of three distinct counterterrorism debates, with the responsible Right (and a few
sensible Liberals) on one side, and Islamists, Leftists, and multiculturalists on the other.

Regular readers of this column will recall our prediction (July 19, 2011) of a climate debate bombshell in the form of Denmark’s
Henrik Svensmarks’ theory on clouds, cosmic rays, and the earth’s temperature standing up to intensivelaboratory scrutiny.
We also predicted that the results would not be welcomed by those who have a vested interest in man-made warming.

Well, the verdict is in: More cosmic rays do indeed produce more low, wet clouds that cool our planet -- implying that the sun
is in charge of our climate, not CO2. The big new experiment, done by the world’s most sophisticated particle study laboratory,
CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, is now published in Nature.

Round Two of the Middle Eastern upheavals consists of the near-certain overthrow of the Qaddafi regime in Libya and the
likely overthrow of the Asad dynasty in Syria, as well as the Saleh regime in Yemen. In all three cases, revolution is underway.
Should these leaders fall, so do the institutions of their rule, leading to chaos and the eventual founding of an entirely new
government. In the Syrian and Yemeni cases, there could well be no effective central government, but the devolution of power
to regions, ethnicities, ideological groups, or tribes.

This commentary presents three very simple truths. Oil industry “subsidies” and “special tax breaks” are neither subsidies
nor special. Ending these basic manufacturer’s tax deductions will cost jobs and kill off far more revenue than eliminating
them will generate. And the real subsidies are going to energy sources that are land-intensive, environmentally harmful,
and unsustainable, in every sense of the word.

Among the major factors inspiring the Conservative grassroots across America to take action is the seeming inability of
those in office to stand fast against the Liberal onslaught. And, while this has always been a problem for career politicians,
no matter how sincerely and idealistically they began their terms of office, the situation has clearly gotten worse in recent
years. With the recent raising of the debt ceiling, President Barack Obama was granted a veritable green light to
shamelessly continue his outlandish spending binge. Worse yet, those relative few in the Congress who sought to hold
the line on spending have since been essentially criminalized, and are regularly denigrated in the harshest of terms.

CLIMATE PROSTITUTES, CHARLATANS, & COMEDIANS:
Their "Research" Would Be Hilarious, if it Didn't
Cost Taxpayers & Consumers So Dearly
By Paul K. Driessen

As you are undoubtedly aware, America has spent tens of billions over the past decade on climate change “research” – and
tens of billions more on renewable energy and other programs that supposedly will save Planet Earth from the ravages of
runaway man-made global warming. The spending, research studies, and “alternative” energy schemes would be hilarious, if
they weren’t so costly.

Today’s commentary barely probes the surface of this vast cesspool. But it does provide a glimpse of what lies beneath.

President Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture thinks food stamps are an “economic stimulus”! I can’t think of a sadder or
more realistic commentary on the Obama administration’s clueless approach to economics. Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack says that each dollar of food stamp spending generates $1.84 worth of economic activity out there in the “great
economic beyond” that he apparently never saw in his legal career.

If food stamps were such an economic stimulus, why haven’t we put everyone on food stamps and made ourselves all
filthy rich with the profits?

THE CRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: CAUSES & SIGNIFICANCE
By Dr. Vaclav Klaus

Recent political, social, and economic developments in Europe bother me. Many of us in Europe are aware of the fact that
the continent faces serious problem and dangers, which are not short-term or medium-term business cycle-like phenomena.
Nor are they the consequence of the recent financial and economic crisis. This crisis only made Europe's problems and
dangers more visible. As an economist, I would call them structural problems, which will not, by themselves, wither away.
We will not simply outgrow the problems, as some people hope or believe.

During the past half century, many Black Americans have achieved middle class status and risen to levels of real achievement.
However, the vast bulk of the black population in the U.S.A. has not made such progress.

By most indices, the black community has not changed. In U.S. cities, they remain ghettoized, as much from choice, as from
external circumstances. Instead of moving forward, integrating and assimilating into the larger white population, Blacks have
emotionally remained apart, nurturing a sense of being victims, holding onto an animus for Whites.

LIBERALISM'S "NEW" STRATEGY: THE SAME OLD LIES
By Christopher G. Adamo

Perhaps the most profound quality common to Liberals is their ability to keep straight faces (or even look gravely serious)
while spewing the most hysterical and laughable lies. In this manner, we have heard them in recent years frantically
pontificating about how “global warming” would surely end life on this planet as we know it, unless of course they were
allowed to grow government, encroach on our time honored freedoms, and raise our taxes.

The U.S. White House engaged in two furtive gambits last week that painfully exposed the Obama administration's amateurish,
deceitful, and bankrupt Middle East and Islamic policies.

Separately, each of these deceptions warrants condemnation; together, they symbolize the tenor of a failed administration in
panic over its lowest-ever poll ratings (43.4 percent approval according to RealClearPolitics.com's aggregation of surveys)
and trying to revive its fortunes by whatever means necessary, even if its dishonesty might expose it to ridicule.

Dr. David Takayoshi Suzuki, Canadian academic, environmentalist ideologue and political activist, has never met, debated,
or even spoken with my colleague, scientist Dr. Willie Wei-Hock Soon. But, as more people dismiss Dr. Suzuki’s scare
stories about global warming cataclysms, Suzuki has resorted to personal attacks against Dr. Soon and others who
disagree with him.

Dr. Soon’s brilliant research into the sun’s role in climate change has helped make millions aware that the influence of
carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is far less than Suzuki wants them to think. In a recent column that was picked up
by the Huffington Post and other media outlets, Suzuki attacked Dr. Soon, mostly with a recycled Greenpeace
“investigation” that is itself nothing more than a rehash of tiresome (and libelous) misstatements, red herrings, and
outright lies. It’s time to set the record straight.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s economic policies have failed the American nation, but they have been especially adverse
on Black Americans. Black unemployment and foreclosures, for example, have skyrocketed under Obama and remain
disproportionately high, as compared to other ethnic & racial communities in the U.S.A. In short, Obama has done nothing
for Blacks in America, either on the macro and micro level to improve their opportunities or attitudes.

By now everybody who regularly receives e-mail “forwards” has seen the one showing Barack Obama ostensibly standing
in front of a devastated landscape that clearly is meant to represent the United States of America under his stewardship.
The caption reads, “My work here is done.” Accusations of partisanship and racism aside, the message conveyed is so
profound because it succinctly reflects the determined efforts of the Obama White House to radically change America over
the past two and a half years.

THE MILITARY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 198, Aug 8, 2011

NEW EGYPT, NEW ERA?
Egypt's Military Holds onto Power
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in February, 2011, it's been my contention that (1) this was a military coup d'état
against the prospect of Mubarak's son taking power and (2) the military brass intend to hold on to power. On the latter
point, I wrote in April, 2011: "The soldiers have become far too accustomed to power and the good life to give up these
perks. They will do whatever it takes, be it purging Mubarak, throwing his sons in jail, banning his old political party,
changing the Constitution or repressing dissent, to keep power."

“It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.” That’s the
incredible message Dr. Murry Salby, Chair of Climate Science at the respected Macquarie University in Australia,
presented recently to the Sydney Institute.

Salby suggests that the earth’s own warming since the depths of the Little Ice Age (1680) has produced the higher
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere today. Not the other way around.

“Credit rating agency S&P has downgraded U.S. debt from AAA, the first debt downgrade in U.S. history, the Associated
Press reported.”

When a nation’s debt equals its entire annual gross domestic product, it is bankrupt. It can still produce goods and services,
but it will likely encounter fewer customers worldwide, as they too are drawn deeper into their own debt crises.

When it must borrow billions daily just to meet its obligations to other nations and individuals who have purchased its
Treasury Notes, it is has reached a point of “moral hazard” that threatens the wealth of every single citizen.

It is too early to tell whether the revolutions sweeping across the Arab world will prove the long awaited "third wave of
democratization" or will merely substitute Islamist totalitarianism for the existing secular, authoritarian regimes. It is clear,
however, that no regional regime is immune to their impact, not even the self-proclaimed vanguard of permanent world
revolutions, the Islamist regime in Tehran.

In a few weeks, an overwhelming majority in the United Nations General Assembly will likely vote for collective recognition
of a Palestinian state. But which Palestinian state? Of the three Palestinian states the General Assembly could recognize,
two are real and arguably could meet the requirements for statehood. But it is the third, purely imaginary one that the
Assembly will endorse, one that neither has a functioning government nor meets the requirements of international law.

As September, 2011, approaches, many are waiting with bated breath to learn if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas will deliver on his threat to unilaterally declare an independent Palestinian state and seek recognition of it through
the United Nations. But, in putting the Palestinian demand for statehood to a vote, Abbas will end up subverting the
international organization's longstanding solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict — U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 —
with unpredictable results.

In light of the Norway terrorist attack, there has been a hail of religious relativism — the idea that, if a "Christian," such
as Behring Breivik, commits terrorism, then it is folly to assert that certain Muslim doctrines inspire violence and terror.
All becomes relative.

This Spring's Arab revolts were ignited by rapidly rising food prices, but they soon mutated into political rebellions
protesting decades of brutal oppression. Similarly, rising food prices in Israel have led to widespread protests this
Summer — dubbed the "cottage-cheese rebellion" — which could grow into an uprising against a dysfunctional political
system and an economic system long controlled by monopolies and cartels.

The case of U.S. Army Private First Class Nasser Jason Abdo has vast implications for Islam in America, suggesting that
Muslims constitute a fifth column and cannot be loyal U.S. citizens or dependable troops in the U.S. Armed Forces. The
Abdo case points to the need for additional, much stricter scrutiny of Muslims residing or traveling in the U.S.A., whether
serving in the government or defense-related private industry, boarding aircraft, engaging in or seeking to engage in
endeavors that affect public health and safety, or seeking employment in government agencies (military or civilian), in
defense-related private business enterprises, or in educational institutions (public or private). Such precautionary policies
are unfortunate, distasteful and inconvenient, but U.S. national security -- the common safety and security of the American
people -- demands no less.

NAACP & EPA INFLICT HEAT PROSTRATION & DEATH
This Kind of "Environmental Justice" We Can Do Without
By Niger Innis & Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.

We remain bogged down in an interminable recession, with intractable unemployment. We have incurred monumental debt.
We have created a morass of legislation, regulation, and litigation that ensures old power plants will be gone, replacements
won’t be built anytime soon, and “smart meters” will let bureaucrats shut off AC power anytime electricity demand exceeds
supply. We are killing jobs, businesses, investment, and innovation – and will soon be killing our own citizens.

America’s workers, poor, and minorities now face the prospect of skyrocketing energy prices and even more unemployment
– accompanied by recurrent blackouts, rolling brownouts, misery, heatstroke, and unnecessary deaths during future heat
waves.

The world’s farm pesticide death toll has been cut radically with biotech seeds that carry their own internal pesticide. A new
study in India has found that biotech cotton has reduced pesticide spraying by 50 percent, and spraying of the most toxic
poisons by 70 percent. The reduced spraying is helping avoid “several million cases of pesticide poisoning in India every year.”

Carbon capture and storage could ensure abundant electricity from coal, while cutting the CO2 emissions [supposedly]
“responsible for climate change.” Yet, barely two years after “a sense of determination and common cause” inspired the
Obama Energy Department to launch CCS projects, industry is “pulling the plug.”

I was born in the midst of the Great Depression and have now lived long enough to be caught in a new one. I know that
economists and others say we are in a Recession, but it feels like a Depression to me and to the millions of other
Americans who are out of work and being laid off weekly. It feels like one to those who suffered foreclosure on their
homes. It feels like one every time we go to the supermarket and gasp in disbelief at the cost of groceries.

The propensity for senior UNRWA staff to make inappropriate, incendiary, and highly politicized statements — in stark
contrast to the organization's mandate — has long been documented by the Jerusalem-based Center for Near East Policy
Research. The case made by UNRWA staff, that such statements are a necessary element of protecting the Palestinian
refugees, can be seen to be without justification: Nowhere is "protection" in the political sense part of the UNRWA
mandate; UNRWA was originally charged with providing direct relief and work programs, and this was later expanded to
include education. Moreover, even if political protection had been mandated, it would not warrant misrepresentations of
fact, let alone incitement.

Scandinavia may look idyllic from a distance, what with royal families and prime ministers almost without security, but it
has endured its fair share of violence, from the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme to two school
massacres in one year in Finland, one killing eight, the other ten. Anders Behring Breivik's rampage, in other words, was
hardly unprecedented.

AMERICA'S CURRENT FISCAL CRISIS IN PERSPECTIVE
By Christopher G. Adamo

Behavioral counselors overwhelmingly agree that people cannot break destructive habits without first being made to
recognize the harmful nature of their actions, thereby accepting the responsibility and consequences for them. The same
is true of societies and, ultimately, governments. Unfortunately, even with an abundance of worldwide chaos serving as
proof of the disastrous repercussions of Liberalism, America’s indoctrinated Leftists are at once too arrogant and too
ideologically blinded to concede their errors and change course before society around them reaches a point of no return.

This last heat wave has been sweltering, but that happens. It was even hotter in 1934, 1911, and other “hot” Summers in the
past. That’s not extreme weather, it’s “normally abnormal.”

If we listen to our “best and brightest,” we can make heat waves really deadly again. And our cold waves too. Those death
tolls will reduce our fossil fuel usage, not to mention population amongst the poor. Is that the Sierra Club strategy, or just
an accidental by-product?

The most surprising thing about the current heat wave affecting much of the United States is that no global warming
charlatan is claiming that it is the result of carbon dioxide emissions. Since the late 1980s, Americans were assailed with
the global warming hoax, until, in November, 2009, the release of emails between the trolls ginning up false “climate
models” were exposed.

According to a recent Zogby poll taken in Arab nations, “The United States is viewed less favorably in much of the Arab
world today than it was during the final year of the Bush administration, and President Obama is less popular in the region
than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”

Get ready for the next big bombshell in the man-made global warming debate. The world’s most sophisticated particle study
laboratory — CERN in Geneva, Switzerland — will soon announce that more cosmic rays do, indeed, create more clouds in
the earth’s atmosphere. More cosmic rays mean a cooler planet. Thus, the solar source of the earth’s long, moderate
1,500-year climate cycle will finally be explained.

As regards fighting ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice and discrimination in the U.S.A., Islamists' divergence from American
constitutional standards has made the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and its constituency of American Muslims
indoctrinated in fear, perfect prey for the ideological operators who have guided identity politics on the West Coast for two
generations. In a phrase that CAIR might have thought would delight a University of California-Berkeley audience, the
Islamist organization has designated its "vision" as "utopian." On the West Coast, academic Islamist argument against
"Islamophobia" gives way to demagogic Islamist propaganda, which will, if history is our guide, soon be employed to justify
other, more "positive" pro-Muslim actions, including special compensation, employment quotas, and similar "reparations" for
American Muslims. UC-Berkeley Islamist's definition of Islamophobia as a phenomenon requiring a radical response could
prevail. In this manner, CAIR's deal with the Berkeley political and cultural Left could pay off handsomely if unopposed.

The U.S. economy is going to flatline all the way through the next election in November, 2012. It’s going nowhere and
prospects thereafter are dim as well.

Millions of Americans, including those so deluded to think that a guy who had never run a business in his life could
actually run a nation, put him in the White House. Let me rephrase that. He has run a nation…right into the ground.

THE RIGHT TO ASSOCIATE & NOT ASSOCIATE PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 175, July 15, 2011

RIGHT TO WORK: A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM
By Marx Mix

Now more than ever, it is time to push home the point that all American workers in all 50 states should be granted the full
freedom of association — which includes the freedom not to associate — in the area of union membership.

ATLANTA SCHOOL SYSTEM SCANDAL: LIBERALISM ON PARADE
By Christopher G. Adamo

In the wake of the horrendous cheating scandal that has been exposed in the Atlanta, Georgia, public school system, in
which nearly two hundred teachers and high-level school officials doctored and falsified standardized tests in order to
create the impression of teacher competence and student proficiency, the primary focus is on who to blame and how to
punish them. But that does not even count as a good start. The aftershocks in Atlanta are only beginning.

If Africa puts up insurmountable roadblocks to food security through modern agriculture, it risks starvation of its own
people and loss of wildlife habitat. It seems as if First World activists and the African powerful (who aren’t going to
starve in any case) are in collusion to keep Africa unstable and hungry. This will, ironically, also keep them burdened
with high birth rates driven by the parents’ famine fears.

My general recommendation is to avoid anything that has the word “green” attached to it. You are being conned into
spending more for something than necessary. Learn to love the concept of synthetic. Plastic, a product of petroleum,
is synthetic, and we use it everywhere for everything. It is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

GOVERNMENT SPENDING OUT OF CONTROL PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 171, July 7, 2011

DEBT CEILING: AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS
By Christopher G. Adamo

While it is important not to offer excuses that might enable Congressional Republicans to retreat on the debt ceiling battle,
the American people need to realize just how much pressure the Liberal Democratic political opposition is putting on them,
in hopes of forcing a capitulation. However, the primary reason Democrats are waging this all out war is not merely to
ensure a continuation of the current bloat and excesses of government. Rather, they know that a Republican cave-in would
be their best central strategy for a Democratic Party rebound in the 2012 federal elections, likely guaranteeing Democratic
President Barack Obama’s reelection, as well as major Republican losses in both houses of Congress.

I’m tired of reading about the American economy’s “mysterious” non-recovery. The lack of recovery isn’t mysterious at
all. The economy hates uncertainty, and President Barack Hussein Obama has introduced more economic uncertainty
than we’ve had since Presidents Herbert Clark Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt started violating the law of supply
and demand 80 years ago.

This commentary underscores what is really going on in Europe and the rest of the world with regard to the Kyoto
Protocol and the harmful consequences of continuing to pursue policies that inevitably deprive us of reliable, affordable
energy – for no environmental benefit. It explains why the United States should, under no circumstances, agree to any
UN or EPA climate change protection racket.

When we celebrate the Fourth of July, let’s keep in mind that the first Americans won their independence from England
with the force of arms. It was, in fact, a British effort in 1775 to confiscate military arms they believed were stored in
Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, that sparked the War of the American Revolution, or Revolutionary War.

The Founding Fathers were so aware of the need for an armed citizenry that, after ensuring freedom of religion, speech,
press and the right to peacefully assemble in the First Amendment, the Second guaranteed their right to bear arms.

Let the pretenders continue with their platitudes about the general sincerity of Fox News reporter Chris Wallace
and the “unintentional” nature of his recent insult to Michele Bachmann. Only the hopelessly naive will buy any of it.
What viewers witnessed during Wallace’s June 26, 2011, interview of Bachmann was the initial salvo in what the
Democrat/media propaganda machine plans to be the total political annihilation of one of its most worthy, and feared,
opponents.

AMERICA: A NATION IN ITS DEATH THROES PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 166, June 26, 2011

SPENDING INSANELY WHILE THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES
By Alan Caruba

The 2008-2009 financial crisis was a wake-up call. The American nation has been through such crises in the past, including
the Great Depression from 1929 until the start of World War Two in 1941. The present administration, Congress, and Federal
Reserve System have responded in much the same way their counterparts of earlier eras did during their tenures, and, not
surprisingly, the economy has not responded to a flood of “quantitative easing,” governmental make-work programs, and
similar efforts.

The skeptics of man-made global warming have now created an important legal precedent for rejecting man-made global
warming alarmism. Last week, the Montana State Supreme Court denied a petition demanding state regulations to curb
greenhouse gas emissions.

CLEARING THE AIR: TRYING TO CORRECT THE DISINFORMATION
ABOUT "MERCURY & AIR TOXICS"
By Paul K. Driessen

As the Environmental Protection Agency ramps up its campaign to enlist political, religious, minority, and other groups to
support its “mercury and air toxics” rules, it is important that knowledgeable persons really clear the air, that they so so by
responding to the blatant disinformation disseminated by environmentalist ideologues, government agency bureaucrats,
Liberal Leftist politicians, and dishonest university professors engaging in fraudulent research. Also, the attention of the
American public needs to be called to the ways the EPA rules will hammer America’s economic, employment, and
healthcare systems.

John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center
for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) at Georgetown University, is the leading defender of radical Islam in U.S.
higher education -- if not in the entire Western academy. He and his enterprise have returned to the public eye with the
exposure that, in 2006-2007, they were offered $325,000 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to hold a conference on Islamophobia at the University.

How is it that, in 2011, every aspiring Republican presidential contender seeks to cast himself as the new incarnation of
Ronald Reagan, a president who in his time was maligned like no other? The reality of the Reagan legacy that ultimately
endured is that of a pillar of strength and Conservatism. Ronald Reagan was responsible for the awakening of America
to its looming fiscal crisis, along with his pivotal role, abetted by then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in
bringing about the downfall of the Soviet Union. But to his contemporaries, even including many who called themselves
“Republicans,” he was regularly characterized as everything from bumbling idiot to bellicose madman.

Trailing the wave of revolutions that began sweeping through the Arabic-speaking Middle East this January, I recently
traveled in the region, visiting some of the capitals where what we have come to call the "Arab Spring" has hit.

After a month in North Africa, the Levant and the Persian Gulf countries, I am still unsure what these uprisings have in
common, if anything. The regimes that suffered these blows are themselves different from place to place, for all
authoritarian regimes are authoritarian in their own way — Husni Mubarak was no Saddam Hussein, nor even a
Bashar al-Assad.

BUILDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL: THE MOST PEACEABLE
IN-MIGRATION & STATE CREATION IN HISTORY
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Zionists stole Palestinian land: that's the mantra both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas teach their children and
propagate in their media. This claim has vast importance, as Palestinian Media Watch explains: "Presenting the
creation of the [Israeli] state as an act of theft and its continued existence as a historical injustice serves as the basis
for the PA's non-recognition of Israel's right to exist." The accusation of theft also undermines Israel's position
internationally.

Now that Ayman Zawahiri has assumed leadership of al-Qa'ida, it is important to end the widespread perception that he
is a dour intellectual who is disconnected from young, would-be jihadists. The fact is, Zawahiri is a wily, dangerous, and
imposing leader who should be considered no less of a threat — and perhaps even more so — than his predecessor.

I always thought it was creepy the way Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly referred to the likelihood of his being a
one-term President. It is as if he knew, even as he campaigned in 2008, that all the loose ends and unanswered questions
about his life would eventually disqualify him.

Is it the “Science Story of the Century” or the best kept American media secret of the year? Just-announced heavyweight
new studies from the U.S. National Solar Observatory tell us to expect a long quiet period for the sun — and decades of
cooler global temperatures.

The Register in London headlined, “Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade . . . which could mean
that the Earth — far from facing a global warming problem — is actually headed into a mini Ice Age.”

If top Islamist leaders have no problem lying about silly things to fellow Muslims — while swearing to God — how
trustworthy are any of their words and promises to Western and Israeli leaders, that is, the hated infidels?

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has apparently retained the hope of a military return to Lebanon, from where he
summarily withdrew in 2005, following the Rafiq Hariri assassination. In a 2008 interview with a Lebanese newspaper,
he accused the northern city of Tripoli of becoming a base for Islamists who posed a direct threat to Syria's
security. More recently, Rifat Eid, head of Tripoli's Alawite Arab Democratic Party, described the City as the
"Lebanese Kandahar."

Regarding the Arabs and the Middle East, if you have had the feeling that the Obama administration has been spectacularly
inept as it takes its turn dealing with this set foreign policy problems, you’re right.

So long as Obama is President of the U.S.A., the U.S. government will pursue unrealistic and often stunningly stupid policies
and actions, as regards Islam and Muslim nations.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's sacking of Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has opened another chapter in the ongoing
power struggle between the Iranian President and the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamene'i. Interpersonal as it may
seem, this confrontation symbolizes the struggle between the Islamic Republic's old elites and Ahmadinejad's
burgeoning patronage network, which challenges their authority. How has the President managed to build such a
formidable power base? Who are the key members of his coterie, and will they enable their benefactor to outsmart the
Supreme Leader to become Iran's effective ruler?

Ever since the elections of 2010, the propagandists of the political Left have been proclaiming America’s shift back to
the “Middle,” meaning away from the fervent Conservatism that undergirded last Fall’s landslide. Sadly, even some on
the political Right have accepted such drivel, and, consequently, sought to soften the strident tone of the 2009-2010
Conservative grassroots revolt against the encroaching Leftwing Liberal statist monster that threatens the American
nation.

For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal
ways.

First, even before the current political upheaval began there on January 15, 2011, violence emanating out of Yemen
impinged on Westerners. President Ali Abdullah Saleh's weak government controls only a small part of the country.
With Saleh's apparent abdication on June 4, when he traveled to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, the Yemini
central government's writ will further diminish, and Yemen is set to become an even greater exporter of violence.

But it's the second danger that staggers the mind: an unprecedented emptying out of Yemen, with millions of unskilled
and uninvited refugees, first in the Middle East, then in the West, many of them Islamists, demanding economic asylum.

DECENTRALIZATION OF POLITICAL POWER PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 149, June 7, 2011

A WHIFF OF SECESSION & NULLIFICATION
By Alan Caruba

That a Tea Party movement sprang to life in the midst of the protests against Obamacare and then was instrumental in
transferring political power in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 election from the Democrats to the Republicans
cannot be dismissed. The American people are increasingly wary of the U.S. central government, particularly since it has
burdened them with more debt in the last three years than in the entire prior history of the American nation.

In October, 2011, Pelican Publishing Company will publish Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First
Century, in which a number of scholars, edited by Donald W. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy at Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia, examine the implications of secession, possibly by regional groupings of states, from the
present Federal Union, the United States of America.

MUSLIM WOMAN SEEKS TO REVIVE
THE INSTITUTION OF SEX-SLAVERY
By Raymond Ibrahim

Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast about how Islam allows Muslims to buy
and sell conquered infidel women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I
desire and buy her."

This week's depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman — Salwa al-Mutairi, a political activist and former
parliamentary candidate for Kuwait's government, no less: She, too, seeks to "revive the institution of sex-slavery."

This week’s headlines: Another huge, awful outbreak of food-borne bacteria. This time the worst, so far, in modern
history; perhaps 2000 sickened, and about 20 dead. At least 500 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome. That means liver
damage, and potential death from kidney failure. More than 1000 cases of severe diarrhea. Usually, it is the very young
and the elderly who are most at risk of serious consequences, but this outbreak targeted young adults, mostly women.

Something I never thought I would ever see in my former hometown, a wealthy New Jersey suburb of New York City,
was a Dollar Store, but one opened recently in a former supermarket. Dollar Stores are giving Wal-Mart, Target, and
similar outlets a run for their money and it’s not hard to see why. The local one has just about everything you could
need and all for astonishing low prices.

In countless ways, people are looking to save money these days. The looming problem, however, is the question of
what happens when Americans wake up to learn that even a dollar can no longer buy anything?

When the California Faculty Association (CFA) adopted a resolution in 2009 condemning Israel for its military incursion
into Gaza, it reinforced the fear that academic unions would be the next front in an ongoing propaganda offensive
against the Jewish State. Amidst the ensuing controversy, one of the key players in the resolution's formation — Manzar
Foroohar, an Iranian immigrant and history professor specializing in the modern Middle East and Latin America at
California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo — came to the fore.

Despite his criticism of the two-state solution and its impracticability as a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Saree Makdisi suggested few realistic strategies to implement a single state. His lecture rested upon pipe dreams of
Israeli-Palestinian unity, all undergirded by the implicit desire to undercut and destroy the Jewish nature of the State
of Israel. Like other anti-Israel academics before him, Professor Makdisi has an uncanny ability to propagate double
standards and fallacy as fact. The University of Pennsylvania and its Middle East Center would do well to invite
specialists in Middle East Studies capable of offering straightforward, unbiased analyses of the region's problems,
rather than those from unrelated disciplines whose principal qualification, so to speak, is their hostility to Israel.

Sadly, President Barack Hussein Obama is but a reflection of America’s orchestrated decline. It is almost inconceivable
that a nation which rose to the occasion and accomplished the impossible a half-century ago could so rapidly be
reduced to what it is today, a lesser people, with lower expectations for their future. Otherwise, they would never have
so disgraced themselves and their heritage by elevating such a man to the nation’s highest office, based on his excess
of absurd promises and empty platitudes.

Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the
West's favorite offenders — poverty, ignorance, grievance — or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing?

On January 5, 2011, after months of heated public debate, the Israeli Knesset established a parliamentary committee of
inquiry to probe foreign funding of Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the international Israel
delegitimization campaign. Was this a draconian, McCarthyist encroachment on the freedom of press, as claimed by
Leftwing groups and politicians, or a legitimate attempt by a besieged constitutional democracy to fend off hostile
intervention in its internal affairs, as argued by the legislation's proponents?

As of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama.

He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent Presidents in the past, we have never had one determined
to destroy the American nation. It has taken more than two years for most sentient Americans to grasp this extraordinary
threat. He has not solved problems. He has exacerbated them.

Bennie Peiser, of Britain’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, offers some of his latest news, as regards environmentalist
claims of man-made global warming and the British plans for governmental action to cope with the "problem," including
requiring greater reliance on renewable energy sources and compelling businesses, landlords, and homeowners to
drastically reduse emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

In recent weeks, we saw how the Muslim world's obsession with gaining converts evinces, in the words of one Muslim
intellectual, an "inferiority complex" — a deadly one at that.

As it happens, inferiority complex is not the only psychological ailment besetting the Muslim world: some Muslims are
also projecting the worst traits of Islam onto the beleaguered Christian communities living among them.

WHY AMERICA NEEDS TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY
TO RUN FOR U.S. PRESIDENT IN THE 2012 ELECTION
By Christopher G. Adamo

So far in this presidential election cycle, the Republicans are off to a less than rousing start. Primarily, their weakness
results from an inability to coalesce around a single believable Conservative candidate. An enormous and highly visible
momentum is needed to rally the nation in a coordinated push against the Obama agenda. And while several credible
and sincere Conservatives are in the race, none among them has yet been able to convince any major segment of the
population of a unique ability to do so.

At the end of a week in which U.S. military forces in Pakistan carried out the execution of Osama bin Laden and the
Afghan Taliban declared that the death of "Sheikh Osama bin Laden will give a new impetus to the current jihad against
the invaders in this critical phase of jihad," a stunning display of Islamist insensitivity and arrogance took place at the
University of California, Berkeley. On Friday, May 6, 2011, Ebrahim Moosa, a South African Muslim and Professor of
Islamic Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, speaking at a UC Berkeley workshop on "Religious Norms in the
Public Sphere," defended Deobandism, the madrassa-based radical ideology that inspires the Taliban.

On September 26, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, rendered a $413 million civil judgment against
the government of Syria for its provision of support and material aid to the killers of two American contractors in Iraq.
The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that Syria "supported, protected, harbored, and subsidized" the
Iraq-based terrorist group headed by Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, thus being culpable for the beheading of two U.S.
contractors by this group.

Syria's appeal is pending, but should it lose, the victims' families will undoubtedly endeavor to attach Syrian assets in
the United States and abroad.

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FIN DE REGIME IN SYRIA?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

The revolt in Syria offers great opportunities, humanitarian and geopolitical. Western states should quickly and robustly
seize the moment to dispatch strongman Bashar al-Assad and his accomplices. Many benefits will follow when they reach
their appointed dustbin of history.

Computer models at Stanford University have just “told” us that man-made global warming has already sapped some of
the yield potential from our food crops. They say wheat yields would have been 5.5 percent higher since 1980 without
the earthly warming; corn yields would have been 3.8 percent higher.

Drought, not temperature, has been the real enemy of food production, around the world and over time. The big droughts
have come more often during the “Little Ice Ages” than during the predominantly good weather of the global warmings.
The warmings have been the good times, for humans, crops, and wildlife.

All the death and destruction recently visited upon the Copts in Egypt was performed in the name of a "convert" whose
only motivation for converting to Islam was to gain an advantage against her Christian husband.

Many Egyptian media commentators have rightly asked: what sort of Muslims are these who kill and destroy on behalf
of an adulterous and bigamist woman — two great crimes in Islam? Apparently, for some, gaining converts is more
important than actually upholding Islamic principles; for others, any excuse to attack
Christians and Churches, even in the name of a nominal Muslim, is good enough.

How well did Middle East Studies Professors at American universities interpret the Egyptian uprising, particularly the
risk of the Muslim Brotherhood gaining power? Among fifteen prominent professors who commented publicly on the
uprising before and immediately after Mubarak's ouster, fully thirteen believed that overthrowing Mubarak would lead
to constitutional democracy, or liberal democracy, in Egypt and that the Muslim Brotherhood would play a constructive
role. Instead of explaining the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamist agenda to the American public, they naively discounted it.

BOGUS SEX SCARES USED TO BAN BPA:
THE BPA FILE, PART FIVE
By Alan Caruba

There is a global campaign to ban bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical that has been safely used for more than a half century
to protect metal and plastic containers for food and liquid against spoilage and the resulting hazard to health.

Every day, somewhere in the nation and the world, there is a constant repetition of lies regarding BPA They frequently
target the fears of mothers of newborn infants, but also allege a wide variety of other health threats, including denial of
a healthy sex life for men and women.

President Obama frequently says Americans “need to end our $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil companies.”
The latest bill supported by Democrats would have repealed some $2 billion of what Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat
- New York) and others call “subsidies” and “special tax breaks” for Big Oil.

In his recent New York Times op-ed, Mahmoud Abbas, the socalled "moderate" PLO Chairman and President of the
Palestinian National Authority, turns the saga of Israel's birth upside down. He says not a word of the Jewish acceptance
of Palestinian Arab statehood, as part of the UN partition resolution of November, 1947, let alone the violent Palestinian
response to the resolution. Instead, he reminisces on his childhood in an attempt to turn aggressors into hapless victims
and vice versa.

OBAMAS MIDDLE EAST SPEECH: SO BALANCED, IT GOES NOWHERE
By Raymond Ibrahim

One of the problems with Obama's Middle East speech was that parts of it were so deliberately balanced — so meant
to appease all sides — that they go nowhere. For example, look at the portions where he discusses democracy in the
Middle East versus the alternative — Islamist rule, which he does not name. One sentence seems to say that a "true"
democracy is necessary, only to be followed by one that seems open to Islamist rule, and so on.

The brutal murder of the head of Turkey's Catholic Church, Bishop Luigi Padovese, on June 3, 2010, has rattled the
country's small, diverse, and hard-pressed Christian community. The 62-year-old Bishop, who spearheaded the
Vatican's efforts to improve Muslim-Christian relations in Turkey, was stabbed repeatedly at his Iskenderun home by
his driver and bodyguard Murat Altun, who concluded the slaughter by decapitating Padovese and shouting, "I
killed the Great Satan. Allahu Akhbar!" He then told the police that he had acted in obedience to a "command from
God."

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled A Nation at Risk, a report that
documented nationwide failure in American elementary and secondary schools. Not much has changed since then and the
federal takeover of school curriculums and testing methods has mercilessly continued with the Bush administration’s "No
Child Left Behind" and the Obama administration’s "Race to the Top."

They are the top-down approaches to learning that have played a large part in the continual “dumbing-down” of American
education. Once the province of local school boards, innovative schools and individual teachers, the education of children
has been taken over by Big Government.

Accountability for all political officeholders, from the national down to the local level in the smallest townships, is key to
any restoration of the greatness of America. And those who strive against it, regardless of the party affiliation they find
most convenient, must be relegated to the ranks of “unfit” to hold office, whether they be wolves in sheep’s clothing, or
are merely naive and sufficiently unprincipled to sacrifice their core values for a proverbial “place at the table.”

Oil “reserves” are what can actually be produced at today’s prices, with existing technologies, and under current laws
and regulations. America has vast oil, gas, and coal resources – several centuries of potential hydrocarbon energy. We
certainly have the technology to extract it, especially at $100 a barrel. What we don’t have are laws and regulations
that allow us to do so.

To posit the significance of Osama bin Laden's demise, we must first decide which came first — the chicken or the egg?
Quaint as it is, this question is fundamentally an inquiry into the nature of cause and effect. In our context, did Osama
bin Laden "create" the idea of jihad, or did the centuries-old doctrine of jihad — supplemented by Koranic verses to
"strike terror into the heart of infidels" (8:12) — create him?

It is no exaggeration to say that the world would be better off if everyone adhered to Tariq Ramadan's notions of humility,
respect, and consistency. Such idealistic pronouncements, however, only serve to obfuscate the real issues facing the
world today. It will take more than words, for instance, to stop the persecution of Christians across the Muslim world,
the violence directed at Israel, the export of Wahhabi supremacism from Saudi Arabia, and the brutal Iranian theocracy.
Ramadan would have done well to explain how his lofty "philosophy of pluralism" can be brought down to earth and
used in real solutions to society's most intractable problems.

Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, "Islamists"), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled
Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were
killed — some shot by snipers atop rooftops — 232 injured; three churches were set aflame to cries of "Allahu Akbar,"
while Coptic homes were looted and torched.

Having sidelined Barack Obama's peace initiative by refusing to return to the negotiations table without apriori Israeli
concessions, the Palestinian leadership seeks to secure an international declaration of statehood for Palestine at the next
UN General Assembly session in September, 2011. This "date certain" strategy, whereby the Palestinians' entitlement to
a state will be fulfilled by the world powers, has long been preferred by the Palestinian leadership to any arduous,
bilateral negotiation with Israel, which would require painful concessions. The Palestinians enjoy wide support in many
European capitals, and they know that the Obama administration is close to their positions on many of the core issues.
So forcing the statehood demand into a multilateral forum can entice governments into satisfying the Palestinian
aspirations by a fixed date.

A reader recently pointed out a fascinating temperature comparison — between 1700 AD and today. He marked two
sections of the world’s oldest temperature record -- Central England Yearly Average Temperature 1660–2008: The first
section showed our famous recent temperature surge from 1976–1998. He also marked a similar strong temperature surge
from AD 1688–1738.

The killer in the comparison is that the temperature surge after 1688 was followed by a sudden plunge into one of the
coldest periods in the entire Little Ice Age! The cold of 1739-1740 was called The Great Frost, and it devastated Europe
from Italy to Iceland.

The linkage? The Great Frost followed a period of very few sunspots — the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715). Today, we
know that fewer sunspots predict colder temperatures, and the modern world has just undergone a similar dearth of
sunspots, from 2007 to 2011.

Even Pakistanis do not believe that their political and military leaders did not know Osama bin Laden was living, as one
columnist put it, “wrapped in the bosom of the Pakistani security establishment.”

Cyril Almeida, writing in the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, a few days after the killing of bin Laden, noted that,
when the question is asked privately, “No one will say anything but, yes, they knew he was there.”

Should an academic lecture on Sharia (Islamic law) become a platform for promoting fear of "Islamophobia"? This is
exactly what occurred on April 14, 2011, when the University of California, Los Angeles, held the third and final lecture
from Khaled Abou El Fadl — Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and Chair of the Islamic
Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA — in the series, "Sharia Watch: A View from the Inside." The lecture was
co-sponsored by UCLA's School of Law, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Journal for Islamic and Near Eastern
Law, and Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program.

What we should do about the crisis in relations between the U.S. and Pakistani governments: Give up on the pretence
that the two governments are allies and treat Pakistan – with its many madrassahs, its Islamist military leadership, and its rogue
intelligence service – as a danger zone. Adopt a policy of containment vis-à-vis the Islamism coming out of Pakistan, rewarding
cooperation and punishing hostile acts. This approach permits Washington flexibly to collaborate or confront, as circumstances
warrant and as U.S. foreign and national security policy requires change.

VOLCANO HEATS HIGH-MOUNTAIN LAKE TO 108 DEGREES.
Now Imagine What a Few Thousand Underwater Volcanoes Could Do.
By Robert W. Felix

Underwater volcanoes are heating the seas. We still have a lot to learn about underwater volcanoes, but, while we're
waiting, please stop blaming humans for heating the seas. We have nothing to do with it.

WHAT IS ISRAEL'S NEXT MOVE IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

In recent months, the Middle East has been set aflame by democratic uprisings, popular protests, brutal crackdowns, political
upheaval and international military intervention, shattering conventional wisdom about the region. Israel — surrounded by a
newly unstable Arab world and confronting a Palestinian march toward statehood — faces uncertainty on every front. How
should Israel weather the storms unleashed by the Arab Spring?

India has a range of interests in Afghanistan that it would like to preserve and enhance, notably containment of Islamist
extremism, the use of Afghanistan as a gateway to the energy-rich and strategically important Central Asian region, and
assertion of its regional preeminence. Yet, the most important goal for New Delhi remains the prevention of Pakistan
from regaining its central role in Afghan affairs. The last time Pakistan enjoyed such a position was the 1990s, and
Indian security interests suffered to an unprecedented degree. But, then, India was a weaker state, marginal in the
strategic equations of the major global powers, and so could be easily ignored. Today, as India considers itself a rising
global power, with many more cards to play in Afghanistan than ever before, it is highly unlikely that it would give up
on Kabul without a fight. Because India has core interests to protect in its periphery, it will continue to play an important
role in Afghanistan, with or without U.S. approval. Washington, therefore, would do well to take Indian concerns into
account, as the Afghan endgame looms larger.

PULL YOUR WEIGHT, AMERICA!
You Consume a Quarter of the World's Oil Production.
Its Time You Started Producing it, Too.
By Thompson Ayodele

Rising global demand for oil, coupled with continuing turmoil in the Middle East, is again causing U.S. energy prices to
spike. Regular gasoline has topped $4 a gallon in many states, and experts predict it could hit $5 per gallon this Summer.
Thousands of former oil patch workers remain unemployed, while the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress
refuse to issue leases or drilling permits and, instead, make more and more oil and gas prospects off limits to exploration.

Meanwhile, the world is feted to the usual hand-wringing over how the United States can possibly feed its oil addiction
in the years ahead, to keep its vehicle fleet moving and its struggling economy making progress.

Passage of climate legislation by the U.S. Congress now hinges on the global temperatures over the next three years or so.
A cooling trend will endorse the solar cause of warming. A resumption of warming will re-endorse the greenhouse theory
regarding the relationship among human activity, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and rising global temperatures.

ECONOMICS -- THE NOT SO DISMAL SCIENCE:
HUMANITARIANS VERSUS ECONOMISTS
By William McGurn

One of the greatest libels in the English language is the description of Economics as “the dismal science.” I hold a different
view — that, when it comes to seeing the potential in even the most desperate citizens of this earth, our economists,
business leaders, and champions of a commercial republic are often far ahead of our humanitarians, artists, and socalled
"Progressives."

This article addresses the perennial problem of confusing terms and claims in the global warming debate. We must (1) be
more careful about using the words carbon, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide almost interchangeably, (2) recognize
that there is no “consensus science” about the role of CO2 in climate change, and (3) pay far more attention to the vital
roles that carbon dioxide plays in protecting and enhancing life as we know it on Planet Earth.

If establishment Republicans have their way, the history of 1995 and 1996 will repeat itself, which portends that, despite
the Republicans enormous mid-term gains, Barack Obama will be reelected in 2012. While this is an appalling possibility to
the mainstream of the country, those at the innermost circles of Republican hierarchy nevertheless seem determined to
deny the American people a real alternative to the acceleration of government bloat and encroaching socialism from the
political Left. Thus, they give credibility to the abhorrent and extra-constitutional actions of the Democrats and Obama
since his inauguration.

A massive campaign has been underway for several years to demonize bisphenol-A, BPA, a chemical in use for more
than 50 years to line cans and plastic containers for the precise purpose of protecting their contents against
contamination up to and including botulism, a lethal food-borne disease.

One might think that more than a half-century of BPA's use without any evidence that it poses any harm would be sufficient
to support its use, but liars who defame BPA are catering to other, more sinister agendas and fear is the means they use
to advance them.

As Egypt lurches into a new era, what is its likely political course? While the modernity of Tahrir Square and the barbarism
of the Muslim Brotherhood both have longterm importance, in all likelihood, the military will continue to rule Egypt, making
only cosmetic changes in the governmental system.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 99, April 24, 2011

THE MIDDLE EAST MESS
By Alan Caruba

Anyone such as myself who lived through the long years of the Vietnam quagmire knows that the United States is repeating
the same errors in the Middle East that we did with Vietnam and the Far East. We seem incapable of recognizing a civil war
when we see one and incapable of not inserting ourselves in the midst of it.

I speak specifically of Libya and the inchoate decisions and measures taken by the Obama administration. To suggest that
the present White House and State Department have a Middle East “policy” is to vastly overstate and misunderstand their
ignorance of that region of the world and the forces at work within it.

POLITICAL PAYBACK -- OREGON STYLE:
Oregon State University Tries to Expell Ph.D. Candidate Children
of Scientist Who Ran Against Congressman Peter DeFazio
By Paul K. Driessen

This column addresses the incredible and despicable actions taking place at Oregon State University – a school that I
once came close to attending, to pursue graduate studies in oceanography. I was accepted, but finally decided to go to
law school instead. (If I hadn’t made that decision, I would now be another alumnus from this university, rallying in
support of these students and their professor, and carrying the shame of being an alum.)

The column explains how someone I have known and admired for a number of years (Dr. Art Robinson) has been the
target of retribution by OSU and Congressman Peter DeFazio – or more accurately, and more despicably, Art’s children
have been the target – for his “crime” of running against DeFazio in the last election. Now the school is trying to kick
all three children out of their Ph.D. programs, even though they are and have always been stellar academics, and have
only a short stretch to go before completing all their studies.

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 97, April 23, 2011

A DOUBLE WHAMMY FOR CONSUMERS
By Dennis T. Avery

U.S. energy prices have risen to more than 6 percent of consumer spending — which may be a historic “tipping point.”
Our food prices, meanwhile, have had their steepest increase in a generation, to about 6.5 percent of spending. That’s a
double whammy consumers haven’t suffered since Jimmy Carter’s infamous “stagflation,” a painful mix of weak economic
growth, high unemployment, and rising inflation in the late 1970’s.

In virtually every situation where the U.S. government should be working on behalf of the country, as well as many that it
should leave alone, it is consistently inflicting grave damage. It is virtually impossible to deny the preponderance of
concurring evidence. But are Americans ready to face the utter fiasco of the “hope and change” instituted during the
Obama administration’s first two years, or will they accept more of the Liberal disease as the purported cure for its
symptoms? Whether on the domestic or foreign front, those circumstances in which this overreaching regime has inserted
itself are daily yielding catastrophe.

SHOULD THE U.S.A. FOLLOW EUROPE'S LEAD?
Look at What Europe Is Doing Now to Address
its Energy, Economic, & Employment Woes!
By Paul K. Driessen

This commentary summarizes what is really going on in Europe these days – in the arenas of temperature change, impacts
on families and businesses, and public policy decisions on global warming prevention, drilling for oil and gas, and burning
coal. These current events and policies are quite different from what the U.S mainstream media have been telling us about
Europe and what the Obama administration is trying to impose on our nation.

The article suggests that, in view of these realities, maybe the United States really should follow Europe’s lead on these
matters.

Anyone who has been paying any attention to the environmentalist movement has got to have concluded it is insane.

Environmentalism, worldwide, and in the United States of America, is devoted to the collapse of every scientific and
technological advance of the past century, along with the capitalist system that made such progress possible.

DEMOCRATS' OBSESSIVE EFFORTS TO FRACTURE THE TEA PARTY
By Christopher G. Adamo

Sadly for America, as of Friday, April 8, 2011, it has now been irrefutably established that, barring a government shutdown,
the ravages of congressional spending will never be brought into line. And, since the current Republican “leadership” has
asserted with just as much certainty that no shutdown will occur on their watch, the inescapable conclusion is that the
spending spree will continue unabated until the national economy collapses under its weight.

Only one entity stands in the way of business as usual in Washington. And that is the Conservative grassroots uprising
known as the “Tea Party.” Since its inception in early 2009, the political establishment and its media propagandists have
sought to undermine and ultimately, neutralize this insurgency of the peasantry.

The ambitions of Turkey in the Middle East must be checked by the U.S.A. and its allies. Less provocatively and more
intelligently than the Iranian regime, the Turkish regime aspires to reshape other Muslim countries in Turkey's Islamist
image. The opening salvos of this effort have gone well for Turkey, the tactics being both effective and largely
unnoticed.

Today, everyone knows the Iran’s crazed Ayatollahs intend to secure nuclear weapons capability and everyone knows
that, when they do, they will attack Israel with them. They have never ceased to call for Israel's destruction. It is not a
question of if, but when, Israel will be subject to an Iranian nuclear missile attack.

You don’t have to be a CIA analyst to know that events in the Middle East will be exploited by the Iranians to bring
about their apocalyptic End Times aspirations and that the destruction of Israel is, in their view, the trigger. After Israel,
the United States and Europe will be next.

DESTROYING ONE KORAN VERSUS DESTROYING MANY CHRISTIANS:
WHICH IS WORSE?
By Raymond Ibrahim

The now infamous Koran burning by a Florida pastor, Reverend Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center,
Gainsville, Florida, has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including U.N.
workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of "Allahu Akbar!" Western leaders around the globe — including
U.S. President Barack Obama and members of the U.S. Congress — have unequivocally condemned Jones' actions
(without bothering to point out that freedom of expression is a prized American liberty). Many are even blaming the
deaths in Afghanistan directly on Jones; Bill O'Reilly says he has "blood on his hands."

FISCAL ARMAGEDDON LOOMS, WHILE DEMOCRATS PLAY GAMES
By Christopher G. Adamo

By their own words, Washington, D.C., Democrats are daily proving that they are not serious about dealing with the
nation’s budgetary crisis. Therefore, it must be concluded that they never have been. Rather, they remain doggedly in
the mode of seeking to exploit the present situation for whatever political gain they may glean from it. In so doing,
they exhibit complete contempt for the American people and the country’s future. Apparently, among Liberals, apart
from any impact on their political standing going into the 2012 elections, nothing else matters.

WELFARE ABUSE BY MUSLIMS IN THE WEST PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 88, April 6, 2011

ISLAMISTS ON WELFARE:
Paid to Plot the West's Demise
By Kathy Shaidle

Welfare abuse by Muslims appears to have metastasized across the Western world. News stories about radical Muslims
— often immigrants — engaged in social benefits scams emerge regularly from Europe, Canada, and Australia. Even when
they are not involved in fraud, Muslims frequently are overrepresented on welfare rolls, compared with other religious and
ethnic groups. The statistics from around the globe are jaw-dropping, especially in economically uncertain times.

President Barack Obama's recent explanation for militarily engaging Libya is yet another example of how U.S. leaders
increasingly rationalize their policies via sentimental and idealistic platitudes, rather than reality or the long view — or
just plain common sense.

There is a compelling demand for more energy production worldwide. In response to the pleas for more energy, to meet
basic human needs and lift people out of poverty, many politicians and environmental activists continue to insist that
“dangerous global warming” concerns must override even these vital human interests.

Now comes this incredible bombshell from Australia’s top climate change commissioner:

Even if Australia cuts emissions a full 5% in just nine years, by 2020, the change in global average temperature “will be
a very, very small increment. . . . . If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a
thousand years.”

DOG LOVERS & BABY KILLERS:
If the World Cared as Much About African
Children & Families, as it Does About Dogs
By Cyril Boynes, Jr.

I cannot help thinking it would really be nice if, just once in awhile, animal lovers, environmentalists, journalists, and other
people would care half as much about African babies, children and families, as they do about dogs.

According to the environmentalists, everything is an environmental crisis. Air! Water! Fossil fuels! Nuclear energy! Food!
If you believe Al Gore, the seas are rising, the poles are melting, and we just have to reduce carbon dioxide, a gas upon
which all life (along with oxygen) depends.

POWER FOR THE PEOPLE: YOU CANNOT CHAMPION THE POOR,
BUT SUPPORT ANTI-ENERGY POLICIES THAT PERPETUATE POVERTY
By Paul K. Driessen

CFACT’s various conversations with climate change conference attendees and New York Times columnist Andy
Revkin have compelled Paul K. Driessen to take another hard look at life in poor developing countries -- the many ways
reliable, affordable electricity can transform lives and the hardships perpetuated by anti-energy activists who continue
to oppose hydrocarbon, nuclear, and hydroelectric power generation, in favor of wind and solar systems.

This article presents both (1) human interest angles, through the lives of people in South Africa, Rwanda and Zambia,
and (2) broader public policy perspectives that U.S. legislators, bureaucrats, judges, journalists, environmentalist
activists, and corporate ethics advocates need to ponder much more carefully.

Dr. Willie Soon and Barun Mitra have been tireless critics of IPCC climate change claims and strong advocates for
improved living standards in poor countries all over the world, emphasizing the essential role of reliable, affordable
energy in every aspect of health, opportunity, jobs, and prosperity.

This article is a direct appeal to poor people all over the world. As Willie and Barun emphasize, people need to take
charge of their futures by recognizing that the greatest threat they face is not man-made climate change, but
anti-energy policies imposed in the name of preventing climate change. The article presents the fundamental issues
extremely well and should be required reading for citizens and policy-makers in Third World countries, as well as in
developed nations -- especially the United States of America and the various countries comprising Europe -- that,
far too often, stand in the way of better futures for less fortunate peoples of the “international community.”

However, as we have seen with many other claims by this agency, neither the real health risks nor the true health
benefits bear any resemblance to assertions in EPA press releases, testimony, and proposed rulemakings.

This article focuses on mercury -- the “showpiece” pollutant in the latest EPA regulatory power grab -- and on the
electrical power beat-down regime. There is simply no beef in EPA’s beef. And, if the agency is this disingenuous
about mercury risks and regulatory benefits, we can certainly assume its claims about the other pollutants targeted
by this cluster bomb are equally suspect.

When I began this series about bisphenol-A (BPA) I instituted a Google Alert for Internet posts that mentioned it. From
January through March, 2011, it generated a report each day filled with notifications of newspaper, magazine, and
Internet posts, all denouncing BPA for having a hazardous chemical that threatened the health of everyone from infants
to adults.

More than one thousand posts were reported. Virtually all spread false information.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN
By Christopher G. Adamo

This past month, Republican Congressman Peter King of New York held hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in
the United States. In light of the Islam/Sharia phenomenon that has burgeoned throughout the world ever since the
Presidency of Jimmy Carter, and the proliferation of attacks against America that ensued, it would only make sense to
launch a high-level investigation of the conditions that spawned this mounting danger.

After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single place, here's a review
of developments in four key countries -- Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.

In Libya, Syria, and Yemen – but less so in Egypt – Islamists have opportunities significantly to expand their power. How
well will U.S. President Obama, so adamant about "mutual respect" in American relations with Muslims, protect U.S. and
Western interests against the threat of militant Islam in the four Middle Eastern countries and their neighbors?

One of the great afflictions of the environmentalists — the Greens — everywhere is a profound lack of understanding
of the role that energy plays in determining whether a nation prospers or just limps along, barely keeping the lights on.

Dedicated Greens don’t really like any kind of energy, whether it is nuclear power, whether it is provided by burning
coal, or is derived from use of natural gas, oil, or hydropower. They think that wind power is trouble-free and cost
effective, when it is neither. They feel the same way about solar power. Both wind and solar power are deemed
acceptable because they don’t “emit” anything. This viewpoint is not merely naïve; it is profoundly stupid.

South African nuclear specialist Dr. Kelvin Kemm’s article offers nuclear industry “insider” perspectives on what
happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami, explains key aspects of
nuclear power plant design and construction, and provides background on what could become a next generation
nuclear plant design: the pebble bed modular reactor, which he played an important role in developing.

It is commonplace for the views of people in power to receive widespread exposure. Having presumably won their stripes
in an arduous climb to the top, they are believed to know best what's going on.

This presumption, however, is not only wrong, but is often the inverse of the truth. Given bureaucracy's predilection for
conformity, it is rarely the best and brightest who reach the top, but rather the yes-men sycophants – whether by rising to
their level of incompetence, as the Peter Principle famously asserts, or by stumbling upward through successive failures,
or by simply "being there" long enough.

THE ONGOING BATTLE OF THE U.S. BUDGET PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 74, March 23, 2011

TRUTH & LIES OF A GOVERNMENT "SHUTDOWN"
By Christopher G. Adamo

In broad daylight, after having won a landslide victory last November, congressional Republicans are engineering the
most embarrassing surrender since Napoleon at Waterloo. And the greatest outrage of it is that such a debacle need
not ever take place. To this day, the GOP remains in a prime position to devastate its Democratic Party opposition and
strike a fatal blow to the Liberal juggernaut that threatens financial ruin for this country. But, having accepted the
standard media diatribe that engaging in such a contest might be politically costly, Republican leaders are, instead,
opting to backtrack and capitulate.

The question I invite you to consider for a moment is what would happen if we just let the kilogram float? This is a
question that was posed in an editorial last week in the New York Sun. After all, the editorial said, we let the dollar
float. The creation of dollars, and the status of the dollar as legal tender, is a matter of fiat. Its value is adjusted by the
mandarins at the Federal Reserve, depending on variables they only sometimes share with the rest of the world.This
would have floored the Framers of our Constitution, who granted Congress the power to coin money and regulate its
value in the same sentence in which they gave it the power to fix the standardof weights and measures — like, say, the
aforementioned kilogram.

How many thousands of people would die in a severe winter if Greenpeace's favorite wind turbines don’t have any
wind to turn them? Britain last Winter got just 9 percent of the rated generating capacity of its huge wind turbine
arrays. What kept Britons from literally freezing to death in their homes were the back-up fossil-fuel plants that
have to be kept in “spinning reserve” behind the erratic turbines. But the fossil backup required is why the wind
turbines don’t reduce greenhouse emissions. And they provide no protection for the public from weather just cold
enough to freeze ice in nearby ponds.

If we won’t build nuclear plants, we had better learn to love coal and oil to keep the lights on and the heat warming.

THE ROLE OF ENERGY IN ECONOMIC GROWTH PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 70, March 17, 2011

Long-time civil rights and Congress of Racial Equality activist Cyril Boynes, Jr., has written an important column on the
vital role of energy for the economic growth and well-being of Uganda, Africa, and the entire Third World.

It points out that laws, freedom, and property rights are essential to bringing health and prosperity to a nation. But they
will accomplish very little, unless another vital element is also present: ENERGY, the Master Resource – abundant,
reliable, affordable energy, especially electricity to power all the tools and technologies that improve and safeguard
human life today.

Cyril’s article is a clarion call to Uganda’s -- and all of Africa’s and the Third World’s -- government, business, and civil
society leaders, to help generate health and prosperity, by attracting investors and building the infrastructures that will
generate the electricity and other energy that any modern society needs, if it is to join the world’s already developed
and affluent nations.

Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Cyril also has a dream: A prosperous Uganda and Africa, powered by reliable, affordable
energy.

When the burgeoning Tea Party movement first became apparent in early 2009, the Democratic Party/Leftist media political
machine attempted to simply ignore it. Later on, their response was to try to trivialize it as a “fringe movement” or, in the
words of then U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat - California) as “Astroturf,” an obvious intimation that it was a
phony alternative to any true coalescing of grassroots sentiments. And, of course, everybody remembers the perverse
pejorative, “Tea Baggers,” which increasingly desperate Liberals invoked as a last ditch effort to demean and denigrate this
relentless groundswell of Conservatism from the Heartland, in vain hopes of neutralizing it prior to the November, 2010,
elections.

An early and unrelenting skeptic from the days the term "man-made global warming" first debuted in the late 1980s, I
rather instinctively knew that the only warming occurring was the same natural warming that always follows a cooling
cycle, in this case, the warming that began in 1850 after the Little Ice Age that began around 1300.

SHOULD WE FIGHT A GROUND WAR IN LIBYA PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 67, March 10, 2011

BACK TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Recent fighting in Libya prompts a question: Should the Marines be sent anew to the shores of Tripoli, this time to
protect not the high seas but the rebellious peoples of Libya rising against their tyrannical government and calling for
assistance as they are strafed from the air by troops loyal to Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi?

HOW WILL WE PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT? PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 66, March 10, 2011

THE PARTY'S OVER
By Alan Caruba

Nobody has any idea how America will pay off the huge national debt it has acquired — the bulk of the debt in just
the last two years — and still the politicians in Congress argue over cutting pitifully small pieces of it.

We have huge government departments and agencies that should simply be shuttered, along with their matrix of
duplicated and overlapping programs that suck up millions, if not billions, annually. It won’t happen.

There is a lull in the life of the nation. Shops are closing. Homes are going unsold or foreclosed or both. Everything
looks “normal,” but it isn’t. The party’s over.

If the fervency of the past U.S. election cycle, as epitomized by the grassroots Conservatism of the “Tea Party,” can remain
on course and unfazed by the derision from the Liberal Leftist political establishment, it can continue forward with
unstoppable momentum. Self-assured Conservatives, who are unafraid to trumpet their cause and willing to properly portray
those on the political Left whose deeds have damaged the nation, can carry their banner to victory, and offer the nation a
reprieve from the disastrous course of the past several years.

Forty thousand researchers and clinicians have just written to the journal Science —through their professional
societies — asking for broader and quicker testing of “new chemicals in our environment.” Eight societies, including
the geneticists, endocrinologists, developmental biologists, and others say that 12,000 new substances are being
registered with the America Chemical Society every day. They admit that not many of these “new substances” will
ever make it into the environment.

Still, the societies are asking the U.S. national government to broaden testing beyond toxicology, into such unproven
dangers as trace levels of bodily toxins and potential endocrine disruption. This would, of course, employ far more of
the learned societies’ members.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘Liberalism’, they will adopt every
fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
So said Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate

Farmers, along with the rest of us, could get hit with a triple jolt of regulatory shock if the Environment Protection
Agency goes forward with its announced controls on carbon emissions. The EPA is moving to impose tough limits
on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country — and then plans to screw the new carbon limits
down tighter and tighter. Farmers’ fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else’s.

The goal, after all, is to make the coal, oil, and natural gas that power most of our power plants too expensive to use.
They need to make all our electricity at least slightly more expensive than the ultra-costly solar panels and wind
turbines that have failed to produce “Green power” in Europe and, thus far, fail to provide much energy here at home.

Since George W. Bush left Office of President of the U.S.A., his successor, Barack Hussein Obama has worked tirelessly
to annul and undermine any gains made by America on the world stage, under the absurd and nihilistic premise of
establishing international harmony through weakness and subservience. A stark and undeniable contrast is evident
between Qaddafi’s ultimate capitulation on acquiring nuclear weaponry, and the intransigence of Iran’s Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who is pressing forward in his relentless pursuit of them, with no intention whatsoever of arriving at a
peaceful settlement with the current U.S. administration. It epitomizes distinction between international relations based
on strength and principle, and those mired in blind idealism and weakness.

Pessimism serves as a career enhancer in Middle East Studies and I am known for doom-and-gloom. But, with due
hesitation, I see changes that could augur a new era, one in which infantilized Arabic-speakers mature into adults. One
rubs one's eyes at this transformation, awaiting its reversal. So far, however, it has held.

Energy, shale gas, hydraulic fracturing, and wind power are all much in the news – especially as events in the Middle
East continue to unfold, and countries realize new drilling technologies have unlocked previously undreamed natural gas
riches in formerly inaccessible formations deep underground. This natural gas is a true game changer.

One important aspect of the ongoing debate over energy and economic benefits versus environmental and groundwater
risks has not been addressed before, however. It is the comparison between alleged impacts of hydraulic fracturing on
water supplies and the impacts of “environment-friendly” wind turbines on a wide variety of ecological values.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s proposal to apply a “life-cycle” or “cradle-to-grave” assessment of shale gas
“fracking” technologies would be equally -- and indeed more -- valuable for evaluating wind power costs and benefits.

Barack Obama, married and father of two girls, may be straight, but he has proven to be the most active President when
it comes to efforts that would establish homosexuality as a “normal” lifestyle in America. He is not alone in this; it is the
goal of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement (GLBT) in America.

FUTILITY OF MIDDLE EAST EFFORTS AT "DEMOCRACY"
By Christopher G. Adamo

With countless disturbing similarities, Libya is going the way of Egypt. And the burgeoning groundswell of
anti-government sentiments throughout the Middle Eastern region strongly suggests that the upheaval will not be
limited to the two countries, Libya and Egypt. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen are experiencing their own growing
displays of dissatisfaction from commoners on the street, who unmistakably entertain notions of regime change.

Fear tactics, not scientific fact, are the primary drivers being employed to deprive Americans of bisphenol-A (BPA), a necessary
and safe component in valuable shatterproof plastics and a proven substance used in protecting food and drink. Only by
overcoming a legion of fear-mongers, can BPA continue to do so.

In June, 2010, the deepening rift between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (MFA) unexpectedly came to the public eye when seventy-two retired Ambassadors and consul-generals
issued a written statement protesting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lack of respect in dubbing them "mon
chers" and criticizing the government's foreign policy. Why did the Prime Minister publicly snub his diplomats?

DOES THE ARAB WORLD TRULY WANT A "PALESTINE"?
A Summary Account of Efraim Karsh's
Briefing to the Middle East Forum
By Alessandra Grace

According to Dr. Efraim Karsh, the Palestine Papers, the documents recently released from Israeli-Palestinian peace
negotiations shed some light on the position of the Palestinian leadership and neighboring Arab states toward the creation
of a Palestinian state. By tracing the history of both parties, Dr. Karsh stated that neither party has ever been, nor is, truly
interested in forming a Palestinian state.

Why all of this focus on biofuels? Current U.S. and EU ethanol mandates have already produced two huge food-price
spikes in the past three years, causing political unrest around the world. Japan says it has spent $78 billion on
biomass projects in the past six years — with no effective impact on its global warming emissions.

Let’s remember that the world’s temperatures have officially increased by a net of only 0.2 degrees over the past 70
years. Even that warming assumes we believe the “adjusted” temperatures in the “official” records kept by James
Hansen’s NASA and the discredited University of East Anglia.

INGRID MATTSON: NO LONGER LEADING ISNA,
BUT STILL ADVANCING RADICAL ISLAM
By Stephen Suleyman Schwartz

Ingrid Mattson, Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut,
recently ended a term as the first female and first Muslim convert to serve as President of the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA). But she promises to continue her career as a promoter of radical Islam.

The decision by voters in the November, 2010, elections to give majority power to the Republicans in the U.S. House of
Representatives and to elect some tough Republican State Governors suggests that progress is being made against the
excesses and abuses of power that have brought the American nation to the brink of financial collapse. And that’s a
good thing.

ENVIRONMENTALIST FRAUD & MANSLAUGHTER:
In the Name of Banning DDT, GEF Bureaucrats
Are Consigning Millions to Death from Malaria
By Paul K. Driessen

Environmentalist disinformation, propaganda, and policy demands continue to move at almost breakneck speed on the
malaria and pesticide front – with millions of lives at stake.

One of the latest, and most disturbing, developments involves a multi-year “study” conducted by the Global
Environment Facility (GEF). The most honest and charitable description I can offer is that this "study" is completely
fraudulent. And, yet, it is being used to justify a global ban on DDT for disease control purposes, a dramatic reduction
in the use of other pesticides to reduce malaria and other insect-borne diseases, and reliance on completely inadequate
“environment friendly” interventions approved by radical eco-activist groups. What we are really talking about here is
deliberate manslaughter, in the name of protecting human health and the environment from a host of speculative,
imaginary, and disproven threats.

DEMOCRACY AS A MEANS TO AN END PC, Volume XIII, Issue # 48, Feb 16, 2011

IS AN EGYPTIAN "DEMOCRACY" A GOOD THING?
By Raymond Ibrahim

It is axiomatic in the West that democracy equates liberty and freedom. Say the word "democracy" and images of a free,
pluralistic, and secular society come to mind. Recently commenting on the turmoil in Egypt, U.S. President Barack
Obama made this association when he said that "the United States will continue to stand up for democracy and the
universal rights that all human beings deserve" — as if the two are inseparable.

But are they? Does "democracy" necessarily always lead to "universal rights" — and all of the other boons associated
with the word?

With Egypt's "July Revolution" of 1952, for the first time in millennia, Egyptians were able to boast that a native-born
Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, would govern their nation: Ever since the overthrow of its last native pharaoh nearly
2,500 years ago, Egypt had been ruled by a host of foreign invaders — Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and
Brits, to name a few. After 1952, however, Egypt, it was believed, would finally be Egyptian.

Yet, though Nasser was Egyptian, the spirit of the times that brought him to power was Arab — Arab nationalism, or
"pan-Arabism" — the theory that all Arabic-speaking peoples, from Morocco to Iraq, should unify.

Perhaps, the best manner in which to properly assess the true nature of Liberalism is to revisit the issues and
commentaries of a few weeks past, and compare them to the events of the current day. As any given situation unfolds,
the political Left can be expected to pounce on the moral “high ground,” and laud its own virtues at the expense of the
Conservative opposition. However, since Liberal pontificating is rarely based in fact, the game changes regularly, in
order to continue the facade, irrespective of the annoyances of reality.

If developments in Egypt have gone as well as one could hope for, future prospects remain unclear. The exciting part is
over, now come the worries.

Let's start with three pieces of good news: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's strongman who appeared on the brink of fomenting
disaster, fortunately resigned. The Islamists, who would push Egypt in the direction of Iran, had little role in recent
events and remain distant from power. And the military, which has ruled Egypt from behind the scenes since 1952, is
the institution best equipped to adapt the government to the protestors' demands.

We are often told that we possess the most powerful military in the world and that we will face no serious threat for
some time to come. We are comforted with three reassurances aimed at deflecting any serious discussion of national
security: (1) that Islam is a religion of peace; (2) that we will never go to war with China because our economic interests
are intertwined; and (3) that America won the Cold War and Russia is no longer our enemy. But these reassurances are
myths, propagated on the political Right and political Left alike. We believe them at our peril, because serious threats
are already upon us.

There is an unrelenting tyranny to demographics -- the statistical study of migrations and birth rates of peoples
throughout the world. Unless Europe and America address it, putting the breaks on further immigration, they are at risk
of falling prey to it and failing as a result of it.

British, French and German leaders have finally begun to speak out about and against it. It may be too late. America
refuses to even acknowledge it.

Recent comments by U.S. officials on the threat posed by "radicalized" American Muslims are troubling, both for their
domestic and international implications. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder states that "the threat has changed … to
worrying about people in the United States, American citizens — raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason,
have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born."
The situation is critical enough to compel incoming Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
Peter King to do all he can "to break down the wall of political correctness and drive the public debate on Islamic
radicalization."

EFFECTIVELY FORTIFYING AMERICA IN DANGEROUS TIMES
By Christopher G. Adamo

As Egypt continues in turmoil, Liberals, Socialists, and other segments of the political and cultural Left in the U.S.A.
and the West remain committed to wallowing in their blind myopia, oblivious to the warnings that cry out to them
from the pages of history. Incredibly, the Leftists believe that, by some strange means, the aftermath of an Egyptian
coup in which President Hosni Mubarak is removed from office will spontaneously generate “constitutional
democracy,” and an outbreak of peace and freedom. The Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979, and all of the bloodshed
and mayhem it spawned throughout the Middle East in the decades since, was perhaps the most extreme example, but
it certainly was neither the first nor only such event.

The Afghan conflict has refocused world attention on Waziristan. Once one of the British Empire's most volatile territories,
the remote small province in northwestern Pakistan is now home to Taliban insurgents, al-Qa'ida fighters, rogue elements
within the Pakistani military, and Western jihadists who use it as a base to rest, heal, rearm, train, and plan before they
launch again across the porous border into Afghanistan. It is also the area where Osama bin Laden and many of his top
lieutenants are probably hiding and a regular target for U.S. air strikes against key Taliban personnel. Pakistani military
operations destroyed insurgent forces and caused mass civilian dislocation, yet efforts to produce a lasting peace deal
with the local tribesmen and the Taliban have proved futile. Waziristan remains a dangerous and unpredictable region with
the potential to unhinge President Hamid Karzai's fragile regime in Afghanistan, threaten the Pakistani government, and
pose a major challenge to regional stability.

ISLAM & DEMOCRACY -- MUCH HARD WORK NEEDED:
Muslims Can Embrace Democracy, But I'm Not Optimistic
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

With anti-regime demonstrations raging in Egypt, and the possibility of a new government led by or involving the Muslim
Brotherhood, many are asking whether Islam is compatible with constitutional democracy? The answer is: yes, it
potentially is, but it will take much hard work to make this happen.

Prominent college and university Middle East Studies Professors argue that Israel should conduct negotiations with
Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Thus, the Professors
demand that Israel -- a sovereign state -- negotiate with a terrorist organization responsible for murdering and maiming
many innocent Israelis and dedicated to Israel's destruction.

Almost from its beginning, Islam has been a religion divided by warring camps. The tragedy of Islam is that Muslims are
far more likely to die at the hands of their co-religionists than by those outside their faith. All religions have their sects
and divisions, but Islam’s history is particularly defined by the violence that began shortly after the death of its founder,
Muhammad.

WHY EGYPT WILL NOT SOON BECOME
A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Egypt will not boast a constitutional democratic political system at this time next year. Constitutional democracy is more
than holding elections; it requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and counterintuitive institutions
as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary associations, and freedom
of expression, movement, and assembly. Constitutional democracy is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, a habit that
requires deep attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of values, a respect for differences of view,
the concept of loyal opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility.

WHY THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION CAN BE
THE BEST -- OR WORST -- THING TO HAPPEN
By Raymond Ibrahim

It is clear that the media and its host of analysts are increasingly splitting in two camps on the Egyptian revolution: one
that sees it as a wonderful expression of "people-power" that, left alone, will naturally culminate into some sort of
pluralistic democracy, and another that sees only the Muslim Brotherhood, in other words, that sees only bad coming
from the revolution. These extremist views need balancing. The fact is, depending on what the U.S.A. does — or
doesn't — the result of this revolt could either be the best or worst thing to happen to the Middle East in the modern
era.

Islam divides the world into Dar al Islam, the land of Islam, and Dar al Harb, the land of war. Muslims cannot be
accommodated. They negotiate only with the end goal of achieving domination. They cannot be deterred except through
the use of force.

The translation of the word “Islam” is “submission.”

We share the planet with 1.6 billion Muslims, and we must either convert them or defeat them.

The year 2010 will likely be remembered in the coming decades as the year when Americans turned back from the brink
and reasserted their devotion to the traditional values and principles that have produced the most powerful, most
prosperous, and, until recently, the freest nation on earth. The elections of last November were a thunderous refutation
of the arrogant Liberal elitists in Washington and an irrefutable declaration from the people of the heartland that they
are not ready to relinquish their national inheritance to the counterculture and the political Left.

Unfortunately, in the midst of this triumph, a disturbing confluence of circumstances in Wyoming curtailed the possibility
that the waves of national restoration might be likewise enjoyed in the Cowboy State.

As Egypt's much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East,
Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But
revolutions are hard to pull off, and I predict that Islamists will not achieve a Middle East-wide breakthrough and Tehran
will not emerge as the key powerbroker.

Today, we watch events unfold in far off places, often in real time. What we lack, however, is context. Most Americans
and, I suspect, peoples comprising other Western nation-states are frequently at a loss when it comes to knowing
anything about the culture and history, past and recent, of nations in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia.

What we do know about the Middle East is that, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, along with the rise of al-Qa'ida
and other jihadist organizations, things have not gone well for American and Western interests.

President Barack Obama didn’t mention carbon constraints in his State of the Union message. Such carbon constraints
would force the nation to give up most of the energy that currently keeps us warm and productive. Instead, the President
proposed a new “clean energy” program, which would force the nation to give up most of the energy that currently keeps
us warm and productive. A study by the Beacon Hill Institute in Boston estimates the President’s “clean energy”
proposal might well cost the economy $4 trillion over 20 years, and force huge numbers of U.S. jobs overseas.

Those of us around at the time of the 1979 Iranian student revolution that deposed the Shah are having strong feelings
of déjà vu because that uprising was swiftly co-opted by Ayatollah Khomeini, who hated the Great Satan, America, as
much as he hated the Little Satan, Israel.

The U.S.A. lost a major ally in the Middle East. The Shah may have been a bastard, but he was our bastard. The CIA
had put him on the Peacock Throne.

The uprising in Egypt, if taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, will severely endanger American interests in the
Middle East.

Revolution Muslim, a U.S.-based radical Islamic jihadist organization, has become the Kevin Bacon of Islamic
fundamentalism. Whenever jihadist groups threaten free speech in America or Europe, you can bet an associate of
Revolution Muslim is somehow involved.

Because conspiracy theories emanating from the Muslim world are nothing new, they tend to be dismissed in the West.
A close examination of these theories, however, reveals pathological trends that need to be acknowledged, especially
by Western leaders who stubbornly interact with the Muslim world under the assumption that all Muslims "think just
like us."

Bisphenol-A, more commonly called BPA, is a chemical that has been in wide, safe use for over 50 years, but has come
under a horrendous and unrelenting attack by a variety of specious environmental and consumer groups.

IS THE MEDIA "FAIR & BALANCED ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION?
By Raymond Ibrahim

The mainstream media (MSM) has just provided another example of how it ostracizes those who fail to tout its party-line.
Context: The "On Faith" blog of the Washington Post posted an article dealing with Muslim-Christian relations,
in light of recent attacks on Christians in the Muslim world. Regular contributors were invited to respond. The response
of one of these, Willis E. Eliot, retired Dean of Exploratory Programs, New York Seminary, was rejected (Pajamas
Media published it here). Up till then, for over three years, Eliot had been publishing almost weekly on that blog; this
is his first contribution to be rejected in all that time.

A new paper affirms the earth’s long, moderate, natural climate cycle. The study is by Dr. U.R. Rao, former Chair of India’s
Space Research Organization. He says solar variations and cosmic rays account for 40 percent of the world’s recent global
warming.

Dr. Rao says the data between 1960 and 2005 show lots fewer cosmic rays hitting the earth, due to a periodic expansion
of the sun’s magnetic field. The bigger solar magnetic field blocked many of the cosmic rays that would otherwise have
hit earth. Fewer cosmic rays hitting the earth meant fewer water droplets shattering in our atmosphere, and thus fewer
of the low, wet clouds that deflect solar heat back into space. So the earth warmed.

A process described by some as the Islamization of Europe, by others as the failure of Europeans to integrate Muslim
immigrants, has reached a breaking point in France. One of the most troubling manifestations of this discord is the
development of a particular type of violence that is more than the sum of its parts. A sampling of this year's news reports
reads like a catalogue of stomping, stabbing, shooting, torching, and sacking; attacks on teachers, policemen, firemen,
old ladies, and modest retirees; turf wars, tribal fights, murder over women, over attitude, over nothing; dead youths,
murderous youths, bodies scattered across a national battlefield.

There is a new Holocaust abroad in the world, and it is directed at Christians, particularly in the Middle East and
throughout Africa, wherever Islam is the dominant religion. Nor is this a new phenomenon; Christians were widely
persecuted under the Ottomans (Turks) when their empire encompassed much of the Middle East.

The Islamic holocaust against Christians is clearly manifesting itself again, and with far too little notice.

During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments, and
the consequences of this failure have been devastating. The July, 2000, Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of
Palestinian violence since the Israeli-Arab War of 1948 -- the former euphemized as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, or Second
Intifada); the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January, 2006, led to a victory for the Hamas Islamist group. Now that
U.S President Barack Obama has announced his ambitious timeline for Israeli-Palestinian peace, could the Obama
administration be rushing headlong into yet another diplomatic failure?

The sudden and, as yet, unexplained exit of Tunisia's strongman, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 74, after 23 years in power, has
potential implications for the Middle East and for Muslims worldwide. As an Egyptian commentator noted, "Every Arab
leader is watching Tunisia in fear. Every Arab citizen is watching Tunisia in hope and solidarity." I watch with both sets
of emotions.

The cable network MSNBC is warning that the world food chain “has been stretched to the limit” by rising world
demand and a series of crop failures in several countries. The TV network’s warning is premature. The U.S.A., in fact,
could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action — limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets
turned into corn ethanol.

Recent developments in Lebanon have shown that the preconditions for restoring its sovereignty have not yet
materialized. The demise of the "Cedar Revolution" and the fragmentation of the "March 14 Coalition" have set the
country back to the era of Syrian domination. The crisis associated with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq
Hariri and the formation of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) afford yet another stark demonstration that the
country remains a victim of regional encroachment and that the loyalties of its leaders remain as sectarian as ever.

The rate of unemployment in the U.S.A. remains high and the foreclosure rate on homes is approaching the level of the
Great Depression years. Two major bond rating companies, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s just warned that, if the
U.S. federal government doesn’t stop spending and borrowing, America’s Triple-A, highest ranking will be down-graded.

Along with all the other things in the federal budget wish list for 2011, are millions to be spent on policies and programs
designed to prevent, control, or moderate -- as well as to do research in order to find out how to prevent, control, or
moderate -- catastrophic global climate change, in particular, runaway global warming.

Misnamed “green energy” policies severely undermine our jobs, revenues, health, and any opportunity America may
have to rebuild her economy. Perpetuating current jobless rates would be just the tip of the iceberg, if we follow the
path that EPA and the White House have laid in front of us. We cannot afford to go broke trying to go green.

RADICAL MUSLIMS IN AMERICA
All the Benefits & Still Turning to Jihad
By Raymond Ibrahim

America needs to rethink its strategy for the war on Islamist terrorism — both at home and abroad. Domestically,
this means cracking down without compunction on anything that smacks of Islamist activity, without fear of being
"politically incorrect;" it means better monitoring of jihadist websites which play a major role in radicalizing
American Muslims; and it means exercising prudence when granting visas to people from dubious backgrounds.
Internationally, it means understanding that the one solution promoted by most Western politicians — spreading
Western values and ways of governance as the means of solving the problem of Islamist jihadism — is no solution
at all.

Within hours after last weekend’s horrendous shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded,
including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a truly ugly picture of a segment of America has emerged. It does not
reflect the isolated actions of a lone, crazed gunman in Arizona, but the monolithic behavior of a reprehensible Liberal
political machine and its lapdogs in the major media. Sadly, homicidal maniacs have plagued the human race since Cain.
Such shameless propagandizing, in contrast, is a relatively new phenomenon.

THE LATEST TERROR TACTIC -- LITIGATION:
Why Not Use this Same Tactic Against the Terrorists?
By Daniel Huff

On December 29, 2010, Scandinavian authorities arrested five Islamist terrorists planning an attack in Denmark.
Almost as interesting as what they targeted is what they spared and the lessons it holds for future
counterterrorism efforts.

There is no religion, past or present, that has not generated an End Times prediction. As the year 2011 begins, you can
be sure that the media will begin to fill up with articles about the Mayan calendar prediction that the world will end on
December 12, 2012.

As the Packers and Eagles head into the playoffs this Sunday, Michael Vick is much in the news. But he’s garnered some
ink recently for another reason.

President Obama used Vick’s MVP-candidate status as an excuse to call Eagles’ owner Jeffrey Lurie – to lobby for Lurie’s
support for the President’s “green” energy agenda. Mr. Obama claims his wind, solar, and biofuel programs will create
jobs. However, as the Affordable Power Alliance constantly reminds people, and as two of its Co-Chairs again remind
them in this article, that agenda will actually kill jobs, hobble our economy, and roll back civil rights progress.

This article is the first of two that will further expand on those points, which were also addressed in the article published
last weekend. As Congress begins to tackle energy and climate issues once again, these articles will be vital sources of
information for anyone who champions access to reliable, affordable energy for America’s families, especially its poor
and minority workers, small businesses, and households.

CALIFORNIA DREAMING, OR NIGHTMARING?
Dictatorial New Delaware Vehicle Rules Impose
California Rules, for No Environmental Gain
By John Nichols

I was tipped off to an outrageous power grab by a recent transplant from California to the head office of the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. It poses a nightmare for Delaware car buyers and drivers,
and is the sort of thing that would do likewise in any other state that might attempt a similar coup de tat.

In a nutshell, the new Delaware Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has surreptitiously and
unilaterally imposed California’s draconian new car emission standards on Delaware’s unsuspecting drivers – without a
word of protest or concern or even acknowledgement from the state’s media or legislators – many of whom may have
been blindsided themselves.

President Barack Obama has affirmed repeatedly that, under his leadership, America's bond with Israel is absolute,
unshakeable, and rock solid. But the Israeli public is not convinced. A Jerusalem Post poll in March, 2010, found
that just 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think his administration is pro-Israel, against 48 percent who think it is
pro-Palestinian. J Street's pollster, Jim Gerstein, looked for a different result, but even his survey found that 55
percent of Israelis do not believe that Obama supports Israel.

WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS: MORE GOOD THAN BAD?
LEE SMITH'S BRIEFING TO THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
By Alessandra Grace

The Wikilieaks have some positive aspects revealing an interesting dynamic in the Middle East. While many
define the Middle East according to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the leaked cables expose an "Arab Cold War" paradigm
crucial to understanding the region. For example, the concerns of our allies in the Gulf, as well as Jordan and Egypt,
towards the Iranian nuclear program are proof of a more complex situation. This is positive; for starters, it evidences
that the actions of Middle East actors are determined by considerations far beyond the Arab-Israeli conflict — even
if the latter gets most of the attention.

For the first time since the Oslo peace process started 18 years ago, Palestinian leaders are openly refusing to negotiate
with the government of Israel, and U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is doing very little about it. As
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority President, explained the policy on December 9, 2010, "We will not agree to
negotiate as long as settlement building continues." The Arab League is backing Abbas in this refusal, says League
Secretary-General Amr Moussa, because "the direction of talks has become ineffective and it has decided against the
resumption of negotiations."

Sanctimony from Liberal Democrat, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York, never plays well with the public, despite
media efforts to cast it in a good light, and his latest blunder is true to form. In an effort to go on the offense in the
ongoing Obamacare debate, Schumer came up with what he undoubtedly considers a brilliant strategy, blissfully unaware
of how completely it highlights his elitism and hypocrisy.

Arabians are in mid-debate, with the future course of reform, as yet, unpredictable. Not only do elite and public opinion
play a role, but, complicating matters, much hangs on the quirks of longevity and personality – in particular, how long
Abdullah, 86, remains in charge and whether his ailing half-brother Crown Prince, Sultan bin Abdulaziz, 82, will succeed
him.

Saudi Arabia being one of the world's most influential Muslim countries, the stakes involved are high, not just within
the Kingdom but for Islam and for Muslims generally. This debate deserves our full attention.

DRIVING U.S. FAMILIES INTO FUEL POVERTY:
Will America Learn in Time from the Price
Being Paid by British Companies & Families?
By Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez,
& Amy Frederick

This is a vital and timely column from three leaders of the Affordable Power Alliance, which represents the interests of
poor, minority and senior citizens, employees, and energy consumers.

The column challenges attempts of the Environmental Protection Agency to impose costly, job-killing new regulations on
our nation’s energy producers – and warns that those rules could subject Americans to the same devastating
consequences that Great Britain’s companies and citizens are suffering in the wake of obstinate climate change, fossil fuel,
and renewable power laws.

Congress rejected cap-tax-and-trade and other economy-killing legislation in the last session. For the White House, EPA,
and Interior Department to impose equally destructive controls, through a regulatory power-grab, is intolerable and
unconstitutional.

The global warming alarmists need to get their computer models, scenarios, scare stories, and climate cops out of
Texas. If they don’t, Governor Rick Perry and his Texas Rangers should arrest them for violating Lone Star rights to
energy, jobs, health, and the American Dream.

The greatest absurdity has been the belief that human beings have any influence over the planet on which they live.

The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets. It is the only
planet that sustains life as we know it, and humans came late to the party.

So, humans, get over yourselves!

You do not control the biosphere of life on Earth. You do not control its natural calamities. Your attempts at
governance are fraught with conflict, conquest, and oppression.